Helene Schjerfbeck – 150 years

by Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse (Editor and Author), Anu Utriainen (Editor), David Hackston

Genres: Art

393 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Manny]

This afternoon we saw Helene , a rather wonderful movie about a Finnish painter I'd never heard of before. Here are some of the words I learned while watching it:

rakas - love
maalata - paint
hyvä - good
valo - light
haluan - I want
kiitos - thank you
miksi - why
minä - I
sinä - you
keksi - biscuit

I suddenly feel a desire to improve my almost non-existent Finnish...