#blaafarveværket

[huariqueje]

The Glass Cabin, The Smeltery Blaafarveværket -  Ida Lorentzen ,  2005.

Norwegian - American , b. 1951 -

Oil on canvas , 160 x 130 cm.

[the-broken-ear]

Kisteguld, 1892 (The Golden Chest) Oil on canvas, 65 x 98.5. Collection of Blaafarveværket, Kittelsen Museum at the Cobalt mines

Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1857-1914)

[skleznev]

Theodor Kittelsen

Blakken og Tungubben. Til Müllers eventyr, 1905

The Horse and the Goblin

Mixed media on paper, 25 x 26 cm

Collection of Blaafarveværket, Kittelsen Museum at The Cobalt Mines

[mscoyditch]

"Nostalgie". 2009.

"My Palette" 2009.

"The Glass Cabin. The Smeltery, Blaafarveværket". 2005.

"A Picture of me without concealment". 2016.

Paintings by Ida Lorentzen. Norwegian. b. 1951-

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[daily-coat-of-arms]

Modum, Norway

The wavy lines represent the three main rivers of the municipality: Drammenselva, Snarumselva, and Simoa. The blue represents Blaafarveværket an old industrial factory the made the cobalt blue pigment

[worldsandemanations]

The Glass Cabin, The Smeltery Blaafarveværket - Ida Lorentzen , 2005. Norwegian - American , b. 1951 -

[leicamp]

At an Exhibition

With lockdown easing here in Norway it was possible to attend an exhibition of treasures loaned to a local gallery by the closed National Gallery. There were some real Norwegian treasures to look at. A great day out. Leica Q2 Monochrom ISO 3200 PP in Capture One (Yes. I’m trying out new Software. I’ve always missed Aperture and never felt totally at home in LR). Why did Apple give up on it?  So,…

[mortenrene]

I dag gikk turen til Blaafarveværket og Koboltgruvene. I år er det 250 år siden malmfunnet på Skuterudåsen. 🥳 #blaafarveværket #koboltgruvene #skuterudåsen #haugfossen #haugfosstråkka #clarastoll #vikersund #åmot #modum #haugfosstråkka #haugfossyard #haugfoss #thranestuacafé #cobaltmines #cobaltworks #visitnorway (ved Haugfossen Og Blaafarveværket, Åmot, Norge) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeeVamZAMVh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bjornbasen]

GROUP EXHIBITION: “Hjemmets Skatter” (Treasures of the Home) including works by Wilhelm Hammershøi, Edvard Munch, Nikolai Astrup, Vanessa Baird, Irene Nordli, Paul Scott, Lisa Milroy, Jan de Vliegher, Niels Strøbek, Lena Cronqvist, Caroline Slotte and Bjørn Båsen. May 12. - September 23. (2018) at Blaafarveværket, Modum, Norway.

[huariqueje]

Glasshytten  -  Ida Lorentzen ,  2005.

Norwegian - American , b. 1951 -

Oil on canvas, 130 x 180 cm.

[legendsofthenorth]

🖼️ Theodor Kittelsen. Freezing (1903) Mixed media on paper, 80 x 54,5 cm Collection: Blaafarveværket, Kittelsen Museum at The Cobalt Mines

[36poundhou-blog]

Blaafarveværket Mine, in Drammen, Norway

[wmshappen]

Plan your Escape

With a little over a month to go until the Great Escape throws open its doors, it’s time to get serious about who you want to see. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing some of the confirmed acts that have tickled the fancy of our chief music nerds, starting with these five:

Smerz

As someone who has 14 different playlists devoted to tracking Scandinavia’s musical output across pop and folk to minimalist electro, nothing – apart from maybe other people’s trips to Ikea – gets me going quite like the words ‘Copenhagen-based Norwegian female production duo’. Smerz make deconstructed techno-pop that’s deceptively infectious and accessible while still evoking dancefloors so dark you can’t see your own chest. Nordic detachment comes as standard, but their single Because, released earlier this year, was nothing short of a slinky low down banger. They even make being called Craig sound cool and Sure was certainly written with a road trip to Blaafarveværket in mind. If you don’t want to fill your trolley with Smerz and then go for meatballs, basically we can’t be friends.

Ray BLK

Ray BLK blends soul and hip-hop in a way that everyone and their nan has compared to Lauryn Hill, but her lyrics ooze uniquely British savvy and draw on a rapidly expanding range of influences. Her debut EP Havisham had a gloriously nerdy and unusual concept – retelling the story of Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations – and since then, she’s continued to riff eclectically, from the Cardigans to Alicia Keys. She won the Sound of 2017 and told the BBC her mini album Durt is about female empowerment, so for the Chill Out video she travelled to Jamaica to meet and express solidarity with Kingston’s homeless transgender women. BLK stands for Building, Living, Knowing, and it’s a commitment which infuses every track. Listening to her is like having a conversation about books, music, and ideas with someone who makes you want to be a better person.

Matt Maltese

The world needs another I’m-just-a-regular-bloke singer-songwriter processing his manpain about being dumped over three increasingly tedious albums like it needs a hole in its new season festival cagoule. Luckily for all of us, Matt Maltese is not like that. He has a Hawley or Cocker-like knack for lyrical wryness and songs like As The World Caves In (which was produced by Hugo White out of the Maccabees, who he bonded with over loving the Leonard Cohen album Leonard hated, Death of a Ladies Man) deals with the anxiety-inducing political times we live in with grandiosity and poise. Recently he performed a Piano Session for Huw Stevens, a format which seems made for his apocalyptic ivory-tinkling musings.  

Paigey Cakey

There are many reasons to fall in love with Paigey Cakey but let’s just run through the basics: the super casual way she enters her lock code before delivering her verse on this live broadcast freestyle with Lady Leshurr, and that she made a mixtape – Red Velvet – as a Christmas gift for fans, which is dead nice. So she’s prodigiously nonchalant, generous, and talented – she also acted in stuff like Waterloo Road and Attack the Block – and when she wasn’t layering vibes upon vibes on Changes with J-Sol, she was making Hot Tings, both of which make even the most prone to skiving back in the day slightly nostalgic about the idea of stalking through the playground lip-synching.   

Drones Club

Most bands claim to have been brought together by run of the mill stuff – not being able to get off with anyone at the school disco, being the only four kids in the village into Motown, that sort of thing. Not Drones Club. According to Noisey they bonded over Adam Curtis social theory and a desire to improve our ability to connect. As if that’s not enough of a nod to Being People Who Think About Things, they share their name with PG Wodehouse’s fictional gentleman’s club, which was second home to Bertie Wooster and Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps. Fortunately, if Soul of a Spaceman is anything to go by, they sound less like a lecture on selfie culture and more like all your favourite 90s shoe and navel gazing bands hooked up behind the bike sheds.

JD Bracknell / @jdbracknell, who amongst other things can help curate music for your events so you don’t get stuck with the sound engineer’s choices (they always pick Toto, it’s just not worth the risk).

[skleznev]

Theodor Kittelsen

Over sjø og land ( Across sea and land ), 1904

Mixed media on paper, 44 x 66 cm

Collection of Blaafarveværket, The Th. Kittelsen Museum at The Cobalt Mines

[nordiclndscp-blog]

#Repost @hannebroelarsen (@get_repost) ・・・ Søndagskveld ved Haugfossen i Modum, Buskerud #modum #blaafarveværket #buskerud #godmorgennorge #foss #norway4me #norway_photolovers #bestofnorway #utno #utpåtur #østlandssendingen #myview #ig_photooftheday #ig_sharethemoment #naturephotography #nature #naturelovers #waterfall #raw_norway #raw_nature #nordiclndscp #nordicsummer #igdiscoverers #houseofframes #nrkbuskerud #yrbilder #bestofnorwegiannature

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Haugfossen, Norway