Vigelandsparken

Hopped on a tram and went up to Vigelandsparken this morning, teutonic is the word that leaps to mind. The Vigeland Park is the world's largest sculpture park made by a single artist, Gustav Vigeland. It holds more than 200 sculptures in bronze, granite and wrought iron.

This is one of the many statues on the Monolith platform.

Another tram back into town, by a different route, and a visit to the National Gallery's "The Dance of Life" Exhibition.

This is the most accessible art exhibition I've ever seen, a chronological overview of more than 300 Norwegian and international masterpieces from the Renaissance, the Baroque period, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism, Cubism and modern abstract art.

There were many well known works of art by Dahl, Krohg, Munch, Matisse and Picasso, as well as Norwegian evocative painting from the turn of the last century.

My particular favourites were;
The Coin Collector, Vilhelm Hammershøi - 1904
Portrait of the Author Hans Jæger, Edvard Munch - 1889.

The latter put me in mind of Jack Vettriano - maybe he was influenced by Munch.

Then back to the airport and the flight home - back down to earth with a bump.