SVEN X:ET ERIXSON, oil on canvas, signed and dated -36.
"Kvinnoarbete i Porto" (Portugal). 76 x 50 cm.
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Surface dirt, minor wear.
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Sven Erixson, idag mera känd som X:et, föddes 1899 i Stockholm. Han utbildade sig till dekorationsmålare och teckningslärare vid Tekniska skolan i Stockholm och därefter studerade han vid Högre Konstindustriella skolan och gjorde studieresor till Tyskland, Frankrike, Italien, Spanien och Nordafrika. Som betydande konstnär inom modernt svenskt måleri låter han sig inte inordnas under etikett och stilbegrepp. Hans stora produktion präglas av en spontan och temperamentsfull stil i lysande färgmönster. Erixsons måleri pendlar mellan häftig, närmast brutal uttrycksvilja och vek lyrism. Han är en grundarna av gruppen Färg och Form, vars primitivistiska falang han tillhörde. Med sprudlande berättarglädje återgav han sina upplevelser. Han hade en obetvinglig lust att dela med sig av allt han såg. Han inspirerades liksom Bror Hjorth både av folkkonst och medeltida muralmåleri men tog även intryck av tysk expressionism. Varmast talar han dock om Chaim Soutines konst.I mängder av målningar återgav han sin livsglädje, ytorna fylldes med snabbt fångade figurer. Under trettiotalet fylldes hans bildvärld av familjen och torp-idyllen, ytorna blev större och helare. Under kriget målade han på smörpapper, inte bara av praktiska skäl, utan för att uppnå den glansiga ytan som oljan ger. Berättandet avtog på 50-talet när han tog intryck av spontanism, som under de följande åren för honom övergick till ett abstrakt spontant måleri.
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Sven Erixson, today more commenly known as X, was born in 1899 in Stockholm. He studied to become a decoration painter and art teacher at the Technical School in Stockholm after which he studied at the Higher School of Art and Design alongside study trips to Germany, France, Italy, Spain and North Africa. Despite being an inportant artist amoungst Swedish art, Erixson does not let etiquette and style limit his painting style. His greatest creation is defined by a tempremental style in stark colour patterns. Erixson's paintings balances between impressive, somewhat brutal expressions and a soft lyricism. He is one of the founders of the group Färg och Form, whose primitivist faction he belonged to. With an aura of narrative joy, Erixson recounts his experiences. He had an irresistable desire to share everything that he saw. He was inspired, much like Bror Hjorth of both folk art and mural painting from the middle ages, while also finding inspiration from German expressionism. But he speaks with greatest esteem about Chaim Soutines art. In a multitude of paintings, he conveyed his zest for life, with surfaces filled with swiftly captured figures. During the 1930s, his visual world was filled with family and the idyllic torpor, his canvas became greater and more complete. During the war he painted on butter paper, not only for practicalities sake, but also to take advantage of the slippery reflective surface which the paper supplies. Narration decreased in the 1950s when he was influenced by spontaneity, which in the following years led him to abstract spontaneous painting.
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