Category: Art & design

This is what the village looked like before a company began to cultivate teak on a large scale. The forest, river and village were doing well.

Insights through art 

How are the residents of villages in Tanzania who are victims of land grabbing doing? Physical geographer Emma-Li Johansson used art to come closer to people’s thoughts, worries and dreams of the future. How would they visualise the phenomenon? What stories would they include? “We did three paintings in each village: one representing...

Colours that depict light

Column: Gertrud Sandqvist, Professor of the Theory and History of Ideas in Visual Art at Lund University, 2015 The central perspective was invented some 600 years ago by artists both North and South of the Alps to make angels seem more authentic – a method to create the illusion of depth...