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From the collection of Finnish National Gallery
Sammon taonta is an unspecified by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, held at Finnish National Gallery.
This painting shows a group of people working in a dim forest clearing. Smoke rises from a fire at the center, where someone is hunched over a glowing forge. Others chop wood or rest on logs, their faces lit by flickering orange light. Trees loom around them, their branches bare and tangled. The artist used thick paint to make the fire and smoke feel almost real—you can almost reach in and feel the heat. The faces are rough but full of effort. Look up impasto next to see how artists use paint this way.
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (born Axel Waldemar Gallén; 26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter and a leading figure of Finnish romantic nationalism around the turn of the 20th century.
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