If you feel sad on an autumn evening, wrap yourself in a blanket and admire the paintings of the Finnish artist Inge Löök. Incredibly positive stories about two funny old women will definitely cheer you up!
Inge Löök is the pseudonym, real name of the artist Ingeborg Livonen. She is a landscape designer but now works as a freelance illustrator. The cycle "Anarkistiset mummot korteistaan" ("Laughing Old Women") is very popular in Finland. This is a series of postcards and calendars, the main characters of which are two incredibly positive and restless grannies, enjoying every minute of life.
When Inge was a little girl, two elderly ladies lived next to her - Alli and Fifi. The old women were distinguished by a cheerful disposition and were so remembered by Inge that after many years they inspired her to a whole series of postcards telling about the life of reckless and cheerful friends.
Illustrations with lively grandmothers not only cheer up, but also suggest thinking about your attitude to life. We wish everyone not to lose heart and remember that there is nothing good or bad in the world, but what we think about it makes it so.
If you feel sad on an autumn evening, wrap yourself in a blanket and admire the paintings of the Finnish artist Inge Löök. Incredibly positive stories about two funny old women will definitely cheer you up!
Inge Löök is the pseudonym, real name of the artist Ingeborg Livonen. She is a landscape designer but now works as a freelance illustrator. The cycle "Anarkistiset mummot korteistaan" ("Laughing Old Women") is very popular in Finland. This is a series of postcards and calendars, the main characters of which are two incredibly positive and restless grannies, enjoying every minute of life.
When Inge was a little girl, two elderly ladies lived next to her - Alli and Fifi. The old women were distinguished by a cheerful disposition and were so remembered by Inge that after many years they inspired her to a whole series of postcards telling about the life of reckless and cheerful friends.
Illustrations with lively grandmothers not only cheer up, but also suggest thinking about your attitude to life. We wish everyone not to lose heart and remember that there is nothing good or bad in the world, but what we think about it makes it so.
“I would like people to stop sometimes, and not rush headlong from one project to another. So that they know how to be satisfied with what they have. It seems to me that one of the holy truths of life is life in the present moment. I myself struggle all the time to remember the value of the current second.”
Inge herself
Inge Look was born in Helsinki in 1951.
She graduated from high school and in 1974 was trained as a landscape designer. In 1979 she graduated from the University of the Arts and Education Center for Graphic Designer, after which she worked as a gardener for 6 years.
One day a friend asked her to draw some cartoons for a newspaper.
Then there were magazine illustrations, postcards, calendars and, as a result, in 1979
Inge Look decided to work as an independent artist.
She has drawn more than 300 drawings, of which about half are on the theme of Christmas. These drawings are sold in Finland as postcards.
Illustrates books and magazines. For her illustrations, she draws inspiration from her environment or life.
Inge Look in Finnish.
Unfortunately, about Inge Look in Russian
Wikipedianothing is written.
She was most famous for the series "anarkistisistamummokorteistaan": "Merry Ladies", "Laughing Old Women" - cheerful grannies who do not want to grow old named Fifi and Annie.
The first drawing appeared in 2003. To date, there are 36 different images of "old women - cheerful".
Now Inge Look lives in Pernaya, the place where Agricola, a religious reformer, translator and progenitor of the written Finnish language, was born in the 1510s.
