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Icelandic art

Icelandic art has been built on northern European traditions of the nineteenth century, but developed in distinct directions in the twentieth century, influenced in particular by the unique Icelandic landscape as well as by Icelandic mythology and culture.



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Sequences Art Festival

SEQUENCES was initiated in Reykjavík in 2006 at first by artist Bryndís Hrönn Ragnarsdóttir, at the time the director of the board of the Living Art Museum and Christian Schoen the director of the Center for Icelandic Art at the time.