|  |  | | | The Painters >> Hanne Christiansen | | |  | | Hanne Christiansen | Ever since Hanne Christiansen exhibited her paintings for the first time, she has imbued them thoroughly with the painterly culture she learned in her studies at the School of Arts and Crafts and the Academy of Fine Arts in the 1970īs. During this period these schools were still academies in the classic sense of the word. To the extent that modernistic elements were rendered visible, this was done more in the form of an interplay making reference to tradition, than as a definitive break with tradition in the direction of modernism.
Some of the tension in her pictures is created by the relationships between the figures and the treatment of the remaining surface of the picture. Much of the drama of her pictures lies in this relationship, and it could seem as though the figures have been introduced onto a stage where the scenography within which they are placed becomes a key to the viewers perception of the thematic structure. | | | | | |
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