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Art Modern Art Has Flourished: 5. Modern and Contemporary Art Modern art has flourished rather handsomely in Finland and you cannot go anywhere in the capital or the large cities without encountering it in painting, in sculpture and, most notably, in architecture. Sometimes it is bold to the border of the bizarre, but rarely is it dull. Among painters, perhaps the artists best known outside of Finland are Albert Edelf elt (1854-1905) and Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931), the latter having taken his chief inspiration from the folklore in Finland's world-known national epic, the Kalevala.After World War II.—A reaction against the overdose of neoromantic Germanisms set in almost immediately at the close of the war. The older generation again relished Verdi, Puccini, and Mendelssohn; the younger showed insatiable curiosity to hear the music of its own time and of all lands. Since music was then among the very few things people could buy for their money, concerts and opera flourished. Destroyed opera houses were built up with lavish modern equipment; musical fare became ever more varied and progressive.
From the Union of the Kingdoms Modern Times.—The union of the parliame ended the political history of Scotland as an in< pendent state, but rendered possible the econon and cultural developments which made the If century the most prosperous and most distinguish period of Scottish history. Glasgow flourished the profits made by trading in many commoditi with North America, above all in tobacco, ai later became the hub of Scottish industry. T trade with England in beef cattle prospered never before. New crops, especially turnips ai potatoes, were introduced. |
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