FRANS WILHELM ODELMARK (Sweden, 1849-1937). "Scene from the bazaar in Cairo". Oil on canvas.

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  FRANS WILHELM ODELMARK (Sweden, 1849-1937). "Scene from the bazaar in Cairo". Oil on canvas. It presents slight restorations. Signed and located in the lower area. Size: 79 x 53 cm; 92 x 66 cm (frame). In this urban scene the artist offers us an image that is conceived as a historical document. With it the author tries to visually transmit to us a culture, its customs, its clothing and its architecture, the space in which they live. Through a frontal perspective, which is closed both on the side and in the last plane, due to the buildings. The artist shows a scene that could well be interpreted as part of the costumbrista current. However, the presence of the camel as a means of transportation, added to the characters, and the aesthetics of the architecture that dominates the scene, move us as spectators to a distant world. Without avoiding that the reading of the work is generated from a western point of view. However, it is worth mentioning that this work is part of an orientalist school of advanced character, which leaves behind the beautiful odalisques, harems and slave markets to paint nothing but what they see, the real Orient in all its daily dimension. Along with the change of vision comes a technical and formal change; since it is no longer a question of recreating an imagined world in all its details, the brushstroke acquires impressionistic fluency, and the artists focus not so much on the depiction of types and customs as on the faithful reflection of the atmosphere of the place, of the very identity of the North African populations. Frans Wilhelm Odelmark began his artistic training at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm and later in Düsseldorf and Munich. His work is characterized by portraying scenes of everyday life and picturesque architectural subjects, mainly from Europe and the Orient. Scenes that he was able to recreate due to his stay in Egypt for a prolonged period, which served as a source of inspiration for many of the artist's paintings, where through different formats, such as watercolor, pastel and oil, he captured the luminosity of Cairo.
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