{"title":"250g stamps to Europe ","description":"Here are all the 250g stamps to Europe","products":[{"product_id":"573a-olympiuleikarnir-i-london-2012","title":"573A - The London Olympic Games","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 2012 Olympics take place in London, England, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. London will become the first city to officially host the modern Olympic Games three times, having previously done so in 1908 and in 1948. The majority of venues will be divided across London and use will be made of some partially new and temporary venues and structures. The stated goal is not to leave “white elephants”, i.e. large structures that no one will be using after the Games.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Olympic Stadium and the Olympic Village will be situated in Stratford East London where the expropriation of older buildings, which might be demolished, has sparked controversy. 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Naturally, their attitude to landscape has undergone various changes in accordance with changing social mores and cultural preoccupations. The work of the Icelandic landscape pioneers, Þórarinn B. Þorláksson, Ásgrímur Jónsson, Kjarval and Jón Stefánsson was suffused with the optimism and patriotic fervour of the independence movement. The reality facing Icelanders in the wake of the commonwealth declaration of 1918 was not quite as idyllic. At the “Alþingishátíð“, the Parliament festivities of 1930 they were confronted with an international economic depression, growing unemployment and increasing political polarization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis reality is reflected in the works of the generation of landscape painters which emerged during the 1920s. The charming summer scenes in the paintings of the pioneers give way to grim descriptions of frozen wastes, harsh lava outcrops and rocky wildernes, challenging our ideas of “natural beauty“ and personal safety. Thus, Eggert Laxdal (1897-1951) sees the “hallowed“ landscape of Parliamentary Plains, Þingvellir, as a pile of rocks. Finnur Jónsson (1892- 1993) redefines the Romantic highlands as the graveyard of hapless men and beasts, while Guðmundur Einarsson frá Miðdal (1895-1963) seeks out places where geysers boil and volcanoes erupt. In a painting by Sveinn Þórarinsson (1899-1977) Mt. 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During the second half of the decade, the ideological and conceptual precepts of geometric abstraction were increasingly called into question internationally. Critics began to question its formal constraints, seeing them as obstacles to the free flow of ideas and emotions. In France, where many Icelandic artists had studied, a new and spontaneous form of abstraction came to the fore. French art reviews such as Cimaise, which many Icelandic artists subscribed to, began to publish articles on this “free-form”, “improvised” or “formless” abstract art.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eKristján Davíðsson – Painting, 1958 Hafsteinn Austmann – No name, 1970 Eiríkur Smith – Composition, 1965 Gerður Helgadóttir – Organ fugue, 1960\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eIt is probably safe to say that Kristján Davíðsson’s one-man shows (performances\/performance art shows) of 1957 and 1958 heralded the beginning of free-form lyricism in Icelandic art. In 1958, former geometric painter Eiríkur Smith began to produce abstract variations on the lava landscape surrounding his Hafnarfjörður home, using industrial enamel. Shortly afterwards his younger colleague, Hafsteinn Austmann, used watercolour in his abstract evocations of nature. There are strong lyrical evocations in the bronze sculptures of Gerður Helgadóttir, where the metal is often treated as if it were a form of free-flowing lava. 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