Icelandic artist’s cartoonish, if not ghoulish, portraits offer stark humour and truth


A close-up detail of Oskar's painting called 'Pippi' (oil on linen, 2019). Photo: RK Fine Art

In Icelandic artist Georg Oskar’s own words, it was like getting a knife twisted in his heart. No doubt, many others enjoyed his paintings of a tropical paradise with its eternal sunny days and palm trees swaying in the breeze.

But a university professor described the works as boring.

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