Editing August Strindberg (section)

==Painting==
[[File:August Strindberg photographic selfportrait 1.jpg|thumb|right|Self-portrait at Värmdö-Brevik, [[Tyresö Municipality]], in 1891]]
[[File:The Town, 1903.jpg|thumb|left|''[[The Town (Strindberg)|The Town]]'' – painting by Strindberg from 1903]]
Strindberg, something of a [[polymath]], was also a [[Telegraphy|telegrapher]], [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|theosophist]], painter, photographer and [[alchemy|alchemist]].

Painting and photography offered vehicles for his belief that chance played a crucial part in the creative process.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/strindberg/default.shtm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230200839/http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/strindberg/default.shtm|url-status=dead|title=Strindberg exhibition, Tate Modern|archive-date=30 December 2007}}</ref>

Strindberg's paintings were unique for their time, and went beyond those of his contemporaries for their radical lack of adherence to visual reality. The 117 paintings that are acknowledged as his were mostly painted within the span of a few years, and are now seen by some as among the most original works of 19th-century art.<ref>Gunnarsson (1998, 256–60).</ref>

Today, his best-known pieces are stormy, [[expressionist]] seascapes, selling at high prices in auction houses. Though Strindberg was friends with [[Edvard Munch]] and [[Paul Gauguin]], and was thus familiar with modern trends, the spontaneous and subjective expressiveness of his landscapes and seascapes can be ascribed also to the fact that he painted only in periods of personal crisis. [[Anders Zorn]] also did a portrait.<ref>Gunnarsson (1998, 256).</ref>
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File:The White Mare II (August Strindberg) - Nationalmuseum - 36625.tif|''The white horse'', 1892
File:Underlandet, (Kraina czarow), 1892.jpg|''The wonderland'', 1894
File:Seascape, 1894.jpg|''Marin'', 1894

File:Coastal Landscape (August Strindberg) - Nationalmuseum - 19781.tif|''The coast II'', 1903
File:August Strindberg - Björken I (Höst).jpg|''Birch autumn I''
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