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“Most visibly and politically effectual were the twelve large-scale photographs by Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin (b. 1961) forming the exhibition Ecce Homo (1998). The photographs depict classical situations in the life of Christ, but they are staged in contemporary settings with obviously gay and lesbian models – naked, in leather gear, transvestites, HIV-positive, etc...”
― Ludwig Qvarnström, Swedish Art History : A Selection of Introductory Texts

“Midsummer Dance (Midsommardans) by Anders Zorn is a prime example of how Swedish painters expressed their idea of Sweden, its traditions and its characteristic light conditions in the summer – the painting shows a dancing scene in the Swedish countryside in Dalecarlia in which couples clad in folk costumes twirl around the meadow in the wistful twilight of the early dawning sun in the midsummer night.”
― Ludwig Qvarnström, Swedish Art History : A Selection of Introductory Texts

“Is it better to speak or die?”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“In The New Swedish Art from 1923, a publication that attempts to describe contemporary currents in Swedish art labelled as ‘modern’, the modern artist is imagined as standing freer than during the 19th century: ‘He no longer wishes merely to replicate, but to create. He does no longer strive for optical illusion, but for artistic synthesis’. This seems true if comparing the techniques of a so-called modern artist with the academic painting principles of the 19th century.”
― Ludwig Qvarnström, Swedish Art History : A Selection of Introductory Texts