| Summary: | The Finnish forest was elevated into an appreciated artistic motif by Werner Holmberg with his picture âThe Finnish conifer forestâ in 1858. The second significant period was during national romanticism in the 1980âs, when the decorative beauty of the winter forests was discovered. At the turn of the century, the forest obtained a central national symbolic significance, and many leading artists regarded increased cuttings as a rape of the forests. Since that period, individual artists have succeeded in bringing new features in the art history of our forests. The paper is based on a lecture given in the seminar âThe forest as a Finnish cultural entityâ, held in Helsinki in 1986. The PDF includes a summary in English.
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