Harald Giersing, 1909 - The Judgement of Paris - fine art print

(© - by Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) - www.smk.dk)

The title of this piece refers to the Ancient Greek legend of Prince Paris, who was called upon to decide who was more beautiful of the three goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. Giersing’s painting is indeed peopled by three women and a man, but it might just as well be viewed as a studio scene where the women are models posing nude for a man, possibly the painter. At the same time, the prominent use of colour and lines direct attention away from the mythological narrative to the artistic devices used in the painting.

The motif's ambiguity The ambiguity of the motif should be regarded as a deliberate strategy on Giersing’s part. His ambition with this picture was to challenge and reinvent classic figure painting. The coarseness, the pareddown palette, the indeterminable placement of the figures within the space, and, very significantly, the thick black contours undulating down the picture plane to form ornamental sequences were all fierce attacks against the finely hewn naturalistic norms prevalent at the time.

A new, modern vein of figure painting The picture can be viewed as a proposal for a new, modern vein of figure painting that has the reality of art itself as its true content. The Judgement of Paris attracted a great deal of attention when it was first presented to the public in 1910, and it was instrumental in establishing Giersing’s position as one of the most important artists of the young generation of modernists.

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The Judgement of Paris was made by Harald Giersing in 1909. The original was made with the following size: 121,5 x 149 cm. This piece of art belongs to the digital collection of Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), which is the largest museum of fine arts in Denmark and is attached to the Danish Ministry of Culture.. This public domain masterpiece is being supplied, courtesy of National Gallery of Denmark.Creditline of the artwork: . Furthermore, alignment is in landscape format with an image ratio of 1.2 : 1, meaning that the length is 20% longer than the width. The painter Harald Giersing was an artist, whose artistic style can be attributed mainly to Post-Impressionism. The European artist was born in 1881 in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark and died at the age of 46 in the year 1927 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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