T.H. Sorensen
@tohauso.bsky.social
Art historian, lover of trees, cats and old Hollywood.
Currently working on 19th century Scandinavian art and vikings.
Currently working on 19th century Scandinavian art and vikings.
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In the early part of the 20thC, the Swiss artist Hans Emmenegger began making recurrent themes of enigmatic, dark forest interiors, exploring the optical effects of light and colour. This work was painted in 1933.
June 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
In the early part of the 20thC, the Swiss artist Hans Emmenegger began making recurrent themes of enigmatic, dark forest interiors, exploring the optical effects of light and colour. This work was painted in 1933.
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Scoundrels and storytellers, the best kind of folk. They may lie with their lips and steal with their hands, but their hearts beat true. Tricksters by trade, yet loyal as hounds and twice as loving. Trust ’em before any priest or prince — Old George the Rogue
#Folklore #WyrdWednesday
#Folklore #WyrdWednesday
May 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Scoundrels and storytellers, the best kind of folk. They may lie with their lips and steal with their hands, but their hearts beat true. Tricksters by trade, yet loyal as hounds and twice as loving. Trust ’em before any priest or prince — Old George the Rogue
#Folklore #WyrdWednesday
#Folklore #WyrdWednesday
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The tale is still told of the monk and Weaver of the Woods. How he she could not eat him as wore amulets of prayer. How he saw the Tapestry of Trees she embroidered, where time past and time to come were both depicted by her threads. Of course, their union is often glossed over. - #CLNolan
Woods.how
May 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The tale is still told of the monk and Weaver of the Woods. How he she could not eat him as wore amulets of prayer. How he saw the Tapestry of Trees she embroidered, where time past and time to come were both depicted by her threads. Of course, their union is often glossed over. - #CLNolan
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Folklore dissolves time. Folklore is the simultaneous landscape of stories. For folklore is the past holding hands with the now as it walks into tomorrow. Ancient magical beasts and the singing of transmission towers all at once. To walk folklore is to walk wonder. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982 #Folklore
May 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Folklore dissolves time. Folklore is the simultaneous landscape of stories. For folklore is the past holding hands with the now as it walks into tomorrow. Ancient magical beasts and the singing of transmission towers all at once. To walk folklore is to walk wonder. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982 #Folklore
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While I am an advocate of witch graft, I also believe in a witchery of stillness and listening. For magic is relationships and no good relationship can exist without listening to each other. To be still and hear the song of the stream is an act of witchcraft. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
May 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
While I am an advocate of witch graft, I also believe in a witchery of stillness and listening. For magic is relationships and no good relationship can exist without listening to each other. To be still and hear the song of the stream is an act of witchcraft. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
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Painted in 1943, Ruskin Spear's highly atmospheric: 'Scene in an Underground Train: Workers Returning from Night Shift,' was a commission for the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) as part of the ‘Recording Britain’ scheme sponsored by the Pilgrim Trust during WW2.
April 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Painted in 1943, Ruskin Spear's highly atmospheric: 'Scene in an Underground Train: Workers Returning from Night Shift,' was a commission for the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) as part of the ‘Recording Britain’ scheme sponsored by the Pilgrim Trust during WW2.
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Wenzel Hablik's powerfully evocative depictions of the German landscape are among his most celebrated works. With richly expressive and intense colour 'Sunset,' painted around 1910 is a broodingly dramatic painting from his expressionist period.
April 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Wenzel Hablik's powerfully evocative depictions of the German landscape are among his most celebrated works. With richly expressive and intense colour 'Sunset,' painted around 1910 is a broodingly dramatic painting from his expressionist period.
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Into the Wild by Susan Bennerstrom.
Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas.
April 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Into the Wild by Susan Bennerstrom.
Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas.
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Stave Church, Borgund, Norway by Martinus Rørbye 1833
Oil on Canvas
(Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
I remember seeing this at Glyptotek around 12 years ago and was quite struck by it.
Oil on Canvas
(Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
I remember seeing this at Glyptotek around 12 years ago and was quite struck by it.
April 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Stave Church, Borgund, Norway by Martinus Rørbye 1833
Oil on Canvas
(Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
I remember seeing this at Glyptotek around 12 years ago and was quite struck by it.
Oil on Canvas
(Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
I remember seeing this at Glyptotek around 12 years ago and was quite struck by it.
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This print by Kawase Hasui (1929) depicts two women standing on a bridge over Shiba Benten Pond, which is covered with flowering water lilies. There are many ponds, lakes and bodies of water dedicated to the goddess Benzaiten, or Benten. She is a water goddess ruling...
#SwampSunday #JapaneseArt
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#SwampSunday #JapaneseArt
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April 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
This print by Kawase Hasui (1929) depicts two women standing on a bridge over Shiba Benten Pond, which is covered with flowering water lilies. There are many ponds, lakes and bodies of water dedicated to the goddess Benzaiten, or Benten. She is a water goddess ruling...
#SwampSunday #JapaneseArt
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#SwampSunday #JapaneseArt
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Place is layers of story. When walk those pale chalk lines, we scuff up not only temporary dust phantoms, but a thousand tales of those who went before us. Whether wraith way or not, all our hodology is haunted. – #DAKilroy 1982 #LandscapePunk
April 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Place is layers of story. When walk those pale chalk lines, we scuff up not only temporary dust phantoms, but a thousand tales of those who went before us. Whether wraith way or not, all our hodology is haunted. – #DAKilroy 1982 #LandscapePunk
I’m co-organising a conference on Romantic Circulations in Oslo next year!
April 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I’m co-organising a conference on Romantic Circulations in Oslo next year!
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For the barrow is never truly empty. Its bones and treasures may have been taken, but it holds fast its mysteries, holds fast its ghosts. It is phantom-filled, a place crowded with stories. No, the barrow is never empty. Edward Copeland-Blight, 1903 #LongNeolithic
March 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
For the barrow is never truly empty. Its bones and treasures may have been taken, but it holds fast its mysteries, holds fast its ghosts. It is phantom-filled, a place crowded with stories. No, the barrow is never empty. Edward Copeland-Blight, 1903 #LongNeolithic
So grateful to have contributed to this fab book! A huge thank you to the Editors and my fellow contributors.
Author/editor copies have arrived! Maybe a good occasion to remind everyone that 'Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800–1950', is also availabe in OPEN ACCESS online: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
March 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
So grateful to have contributed to this fab book! A huge thank you to the Editors and my fellow contributors.
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Author/editor copies have arrived! Maybe a good occasion to remind everyone that 'Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800–1950', is also availabe in OPEN ACCESS online: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
March 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Author/editor copies have arrived! Maybe a good occasion to remind everyone that 'Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800–1950', is also availabe in OPEN ACCESS online: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
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'The Bad Sower.' (1908) Gustave van de Woestyne painted in a very personal symbolist style; his pictures reveal a strong influence of Pieter Breughel and other Flemish primitive masters, whose work had deeply impressed him at an exhibition in Bruges in 1902.
February 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
'The Bad Sower.' (1908) Gustave van de Woestyne painted in a very personal symbolist style; his pictures reveal a strong influence of Pieter Breughel and other Flemish primitive masters, whose work had deeply impressed him at an exhibition in Bruges in 1902.
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Here is a heath where kings that history never named fought. Here is a heath where phantoms speak in spear-clash, carnyx cry. Blood-stares across millennia. Ageless grudges. Temporal echoes refusing easy decay. This is the haunted England we all may walk. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme, 1934
January 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Here is a heath where kings that history never named fought. Here is a heath where phantoms speak in spear-clash, carnyx cry. Blood-stares across millennia. Ageless grudges. Temporal echoes refusing easy decay. This is the haunted England we all may walk. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme, 1934
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🎨Tove Jansson, ‘Moomin Winter Snow’
January 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🎨Tove Jansson, ‘Moomin Winter Snow’
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'The Automobile.' To viewers of this painting at its first exhibition in 1900, this would have been a very daring image - Ramón Casas puts the motor car, a revolutionary machine almost on top of us. Equally daring: it is being driven by one of his sisters, Montserrat.
December 8, 2024 at 8:11 PM
'The Automobile.' To viewers of this painting at its first exhibition in 1900, this would have been a very daring image - Ramón Casas puts the motor car, a revolutionary machine almost on top of us. Equally daring: it is being driven by one of his sisters, Montserrat.
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In March 2025, the Royal Academy is exhibiting around 70 pictures by the author and politician Victor Hugo, who is less well known as an artist than he should be. This work is of the Eddystone Lightstone from 1866.
December 4, 2024 at 2:16 PM
In March 2025, the Royal Academy is exhibiting around 70 pictures by the author and politician Victor Hugo, who is less well known as an artist than he should be. This work is of the Eddystone Lightstone from 1866.
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Following the success of a trip to Sweden in 1912 which spurred him into a bout of creativity, the following year Harold Gilman visited Norway and again produced a large number of pictures, both landscapes and urban scenes, including this interior.
December 3, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Following the success of a trip to Sweden in 1912 which spurred him into a bout of creativity, the following year Harold Gilman visited Norway and again produced a large number of pictures, both landscapes and urban scenes, including this interior.
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Our film on the making of Africa's blank spaces, produced in partnership with the National Museums of World Cultures, is now available in the official Youtube channel of Uppsala University.
Unmapping Africa
YouTube video by Uppsala universitet
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Our film on the making of Africa's blank spaces, produced in partnership with the National Museums of World Cultures, is now available in the official Youtube channel of Uppsala University.
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This might be the most awesome taxidermied animal I have ever seen at a natural history museum.
In the Exploring Michigan gallery @ummnh.bsky.social
In the Exploring Michigan gallery @ummnh.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 9:03 PM
This might be the most awesome taxidermied animal I have ever seen at a natural history museum.
In the Exploring Michigan gallery @ummnh.bsky.social
In the Exploring Michigan gallery @ummnh.bsky.social
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November 24, 2024 at 12:09 PM
I just learned that it recently was @annelouiseavery.bsky.social birthday! In honour of that and as a thank you for her wonderful stories I present two foxes by Norwegian artist Erik Werenskiold (1855-1938). www.nasjonalmuseet.no/samlingen/ob... #art #fox #drawing #norwegian_art
November 24, 2024 at 8:54 AM
I just learned that it recently was @annelouiseavery.bsky.social birthday! In honour of that and as a thank you for her wonderful stories I present two foxes by Norwegian artist Erik Werenskiold (1855-1938). www.nasjonalmuseet.no/samlingen/ob... #art #fox #drawing #norwegian_art