This is collection of interviews (some of which are movies) and essays about Lennart Anderson.   If you have a URL of an article or a printed article or essay and can scan it and send it to us, please get in touch.  

Art of the Real Essay (printed here without permission of the publisher (working on it).  The book's out of print but used copies are available online.)

High Gifts and Creative Intuition: By Maureen Mullarkey

Interviews and Movies

Click on picture above to see & hear Lennart discussing his study for the Idylls (Bacchanal) and how it relates to the three larger works (shown below).

Leading up to this Lennart stated that he isn't always glad to hear that people respond most positively to his Bacchanal painting (the study).   Although it is one of his favorite works because, as he puts it, it "was a gift", he acknowledges that it is atypical because he was trying to do an abstract expressionist painting.  When someone singles it out as a "favorite" of theirs, he worries that they miss the general direction of the rest of his ouvre.   The three Idylls, on the other hand, are more consistent with how he thinks of himself as a painter.

Click pictures below for larger view

Bacchanal (study)
     
    Idyll 1                                                                    Idyll 2                                                                  Idyll 3

Click here for another movie of Lennart discussing content of Idylls

Heres a picture of Lennart working on his current large painting of Barbara.   The palette of oil colors he's using for the figure is: Titanium White, Black, Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna, Raw Umber. To see a movie of him talking about this set of colors click on the image below (Taken 9/05)

For more on this painting in progress go to the news section.

What exactly is an idyll?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

An idyll or idyl is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls. Later imitators included the Roman poets Virgil and Catullus, and the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Idyll (Gr. eidyllion (little picture), is also the name of a kind of painting usually representing a pastor and his animals in a rural setting. They are depicted in a natural way, the three components, man, animal and the environment being in a harmonious unity, rendering the picture not to be a landscape, or a genre, or just an image of an animal. Nature in this combination is presented in a non-sophisticated, realistic fashion.

The subjects of such pictures are usually simple people living in uncivilised conditions, featuring naivity in their thinking and yet leading a happy and cheerful life. The approach to the presentation is not humorous, but emotional, sometimes sentimental.