{"product_id":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup","title":"Preparations For The Midsummer Eve Bonfire By Nicolai Astrup","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eMuseum-Quality Giclée Prints\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eOur giclée prints are crafted using archival pigment inks that resist fading and faithfully preserve the original tonalities and hues of the artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eNo Watermarks or Branding\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eYour print will arrive free of any watermarks or branding—just the art, exactly as intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eSizing \u0026amp; Framing Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eUnframed Matte Paper Prints:\u003c\/em\u003e Delivered in the exact dimensions of the artwork on 280 gsm Artist Paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eStretched Canvas:\u003c\/em\u003e Ready to hang with neatly finished edges and solid wood support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eFramed Prints:\u003c\/em\u003e Professionally mounted in a premium wood frame with backing and wire installed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eFast, Free Shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eFree shipping in the USA and UK. 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The composition likely unfolds across a rural Norwegian landscape, rendered in his characteristic palette of deep greens, warm earth tones, and luminous sky. Figures move through the scene with deliberate purpose, their forms simplified yet expressive, working against a backdrop of forest and fjord. There is an almost Japanese clarity to the spatial construction—influenced by the ukiyo-e prints Astrup admired in Paris—that gives the everyday act of preparation an almost sacred compositional weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work sits at the heart of Astrup's artistic obsession. Midsummer Eve bonfires were forbidden to him in childhood; the pagan ritual clashed with the strict Christian morality of his community. As an adult, he returned to rural Jølster and spent decades transmuting that childhood longing into paint and woodcut. These preparations—the gathering, the waiting, the anticipation—held as much power for him as the fires themselves. They speak to a liminal space: between prohibition and transgression, between labor and celebration, between the mundane and the mythic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHung in a room with generous natural light, this print rewards close looking. It appeals to viewers drawn to landscape as psychological terrain, to those who understand ritual and folklore as legitimate subjects for serious art. The mood is neither dark nor sentimental, but contemplative—the calm before something charged. It belongs alongside other works that honor rural life and pagan memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout Nicolai Astrup\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew painters have rendered the strange, luminous light of a Norwegian summer night quite like this one. Born in 1880 in the western fjord village of Jølster, he trained briefly in Kristiania and Paris before returning home for good, building a life and a body of work rooted in the same patch of landscape. His paintings and woodcuts of midsummer gardens, marsh marigolds and bonfire nights pull from folk tradition and the post-Impressionist palette he absorbed abroad, then bend both toward something distinctly his own. For viewers today, the appeal is immediate: dense colour, deep stillness, and a sense of place that feels both ancient and alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Nicolai Astrup","offers":[{"title":"24\" x 18\" \/ Stretched Canvas","offer_id":41549629587543,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_24x18_-StretchedCanvas","price":119.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24\" x 18\" \/ Fine Art Paper","offer_id":41549629620311,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_24x18_-FineArtPaper","price":78.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24\" x 18\" \/ Antiqua Frame","offer_id":41549629653079,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_24x18_-AntiquaFrame","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24\" x 18\" \/ Hickory Frame","offer_id":41549629685847,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_24x18_-HickoryFrame","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24\" x 18\" \/ Raven Frame","offer_id":41549629718615,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_24x18_-RavenFrame","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36\" x 24\" \/ Stretched Canvas","offer_id":41549629784151,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_36x24_-StretchedCanvas","price":199.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36\" x 24\" \/ Fine Art Paper","offer_id":41549629816919,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_36x24_-FineArtPaper","price":119.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36\" x 24\" \/ Antiqua Frame","offer_id":41549629849687,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_36x24_-AntiquaFrame","price":249.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36\" x 24\" \/ Hickory Frame","offer_id":41549629882455,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_36x24_-HickoryFrame","price":249.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"48\" x 36\" \/ Stretched Canvas","offer_id":41549629915223,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_48x36_-StretchedCanvas","price":399.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"48\" x 36\" \/ Fine Art Paper","offer_id":41549629947991,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_48x36_-FineArtPaper","price":199.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"48\" x 36\" \/ Antiqua Frame","offer_id":41549629980759,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_48x36_-AntiquaFrame","price":499.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"48\" x 36\" \/ Hickory Frame","offer_id":41549630013527,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_48x36_-HickoryFrame","price":499.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36\" x 24\" \/ Raven Frame","offer_id":43297638056023,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_36x24_-RavenFrame","price":249.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"48\" x 36\" \/ Raven Frame","offer_id":43297638088791,"sku":"preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup-_48x36_-RavenFrame","price":499.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2536\/4678\/products\/fine-art-print-preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-by-nicolai-astrup-1171188242.jpg?v=1749768245","url":"https:\/\/trulyart.com\/products\/preparations-for-the-midsummer-eve-bonfire-nicolai-astrup","provider":"Truly Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}