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• Karólína Lárusdóttir obituary

  14-04-2019 12:23 via theguardian.com
  My mother, Karólína Lárusdóttir, who has died aged 74, was a printmaker and painter originally from Iceland, but who lived most of her life in the UK, mainly in and around Cambridge.Karólína’s works are evocative of her childhood in Reykjavik, underpinned by the mystic elements of Icelandic culture. Her grandfather, Johannes Josefsson, an Icelandic wrestling champion who worked as a strongman with Barnum and Bailey’s circus and with the escap
  
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• Edvard Munch: Love and Angst review – shattering despair for all to see

  14-04-2019 09:00 via theguardian.com
  British Museum, London
  In his paintings and especially his wildly experimental prints, the bereft, brilliant Munch created a universal language of despairThe face of Edvard Munch, pale, tense, insomniac, looms like a moon in outer darkness. Black night seethes all around him and there is a funereal austerity to his collar and neatly combed hair. The wide moustache and low-slung eyelids are superbly described, and you might stop there, amazed at the graphic acuity of this lithograph, nearly the s
  
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