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Queen Margrethe II of Denmark exhibited her art for the first time in public fourteen years ago at the Køge Museum in Denmark. Since then Her Majesty´s exhibitions have been arranged in the Nordic countries and elsewhere in Europe. During four months, november 2002 to March 2003 the Queen´s art is presented for the first time in Finland, at the Didrichsen Art Museum.
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Queen Margrethe at her easel in France, painting a Lagerstroemia tree.
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The exhibition mainly concentrates on two of the most important fields in the Queen's artistic production - paintings in acrylic from 1983-1999 and ecclesiastical textiles, designed and partly embroided by the Queen herself. In addition to this, the exhibition also gives the audience an opportunity to make acquintance with other examples of Her Majesty's versatile art production.
The exhibition shows some 30 paintings, five ecclesiastical textiles and their sketches, the book The Lord of the Rings illustrated by the Queen, the Christmas spoon with sketches and the décor for the animated film The Snow Queen. The ecclesiastical textiles will be changed during the exhibition because they are used in Danish churches according to the colours referring to the ecclesiastical year demands.
Her Majesty's artistical expression has close ties with nature. The Nordic countryside with its ever changing moods and varying seasonal guises can be seen in her paintings. The Queen´s general tendency to simplify forms has certain similarities with the style practised by the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck at the beginning of the 20th century.
Nowadays Queen Margrethe II signs her paintings with the letter M. In the beginning she used the pseudonym Ingahild Grathmer.
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