Norwegians Love Claude Monet! The 10 Best-Selling Paintings of 2010

OSLO, NORWAY, January 08, 2011 (Press-News.org) 2010 is now history, and here are the paintings Norwegian art lovers love:

1) Claude Monet - Woman with a Parasol

( http://www.aspektkunst.no/maleri ) Claude Monet has done it this year also. This is the second time in a row he tops the best selling list. This piece is one of the most famous paintings of Monet's early impressionist works.

2) Albert Bierstadt - Among the Bernese Alps

The landscape painting of the famous American painter is the second best selling painting of 2010. Norwegians can't get enough of Bierstadt. This German-American painter is best known for his large landscapes of the American West.

3) Vincent van Gogh - Starry Night

This modern painting by ( http://www.aspektkunst.no/maleri ) Vincent van Gogh hits the third place in best selling record. What makes the Starry Night venerable is the painting creates a pleasurable and lively environment to look at. Although the features are exaggerated, it describes a scene that anyone can relate with and wish to be at. Van Gogh painted Starry Night while in an Asylum at Saint-Remy in 1889.

4) Vincent van Gogh - Crows over Wheatfield

Well it is again Vincent van Gogh taking the consecutive place with his estimable painting, Crows over Wheatfield. A usual construal of this painting is that it shows Van Gogh's state of mind with a dark, forbidding sky, the uncertainty of three paths going in different directions and the black crows overhead being signs of threatening.

5) Gustav Klimt - Tree of Life

Gustav Klimt's Tree of Life gets fifth place in the best selling list. This Austrian Symbolist Painter in this painting describes an important symbol almost in every culture. With the branches of the tree reaching into the sky and roots deep in the earth, the painting dwells in three worlds: a link between heaven, the earth and the underworld uniting above and below.

6) William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Child Braiding a Crown

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was well renowned as both traditional and modern painter in his period. His Child Braiding a Crown painting takes the sixth place among the top ten best selling paintings list. Here in this painting the innocence of a girl child is portrayed which has made Norwegians to rate it among the top ten paintings list.

7) Vincent van Gogh - Cafe Terrace at Night

It is Vincent van Gogh for the third time. His Cafe Terrace at Night takes the seventh place in the best selling paintings list. His paintings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces. This painting signifies the exterior view of a night cafe terrace.

8) Vincent van Gogh - The bedroom in Arles

Norwegians are well again not enough with Vincent van Gogh. His extraordinary paintings speak that he truly deserve to get the recognition as the most popular and successful artist of his century. In this painting, The bedroom in Arles, he has portrayed a typical bedroom in the Arles city in the 19th century.

9) Albert Bierstadt - Bavarian Landscape

Well it is the second time Albert ( http://www.aspektkunst.no/maleri ) Bierstadt. Here in this painting too, he has painted the stunning look of Bavarian landscape. Norwegians who are very much fond of nature would extremely prefer Albert Bierstadt's paintings.

10) Claude Monet - Argenteuil

If it is Claude Monet's, 'Woman with a Parasol' that takes the number one position this year, it his 'Argenteuil' getting the last position too. In this painting he has portrayed his days at his native, Argenteuil.

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