The Ateneum Art Museum anniversary (120 years) exhibition presents one of the major artists of the Finnish Golden Age, Pekka Halonen (1865–1933). The exhibition features almost 300 works from Halonen's diverse and eventful career that spanned over 40 years.
Halonen's artistic career took him abroad, first to Paris and later Italy. In Paris he studied under the artist Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) who inspired him to discover his own personal style of depicting nature. Gauguin encouraged Halonen to find his own roots. Halonen's art is indeed built on depictions of the Finnish nature and people. However, although Halonen chose his motifs among the people and landscapes of his home country, his art was closely tied to the international movements of the time.
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