Talk:Gustav Vigeland

message: An image used in this article, , has been nominated for deletion at Wikimedia Commons in the following category: Deletion requests October 2011 
;What should I do?
Don't panic; a discussion will now take place over on Commons about whether to remove the file. This gives you an opportunity to contest the deletion, although please review Commons guidelines before doing so.
* If the image is non-free then you may need to upload it to Wikipedia (Commons does not allow fair use)
* If the image isn't freely licensed and there is no fair use rationale then it cannot be uploaded or used.
This notification is provided by a Bot --CommonsNotificationBot (talk) 11:59, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: File:VigelandObelisk.jpg Nominated for Deletion

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on Gustav Vigeland. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20120616002218/http://www.reckonings.net:80/photos/vigelandphotos/index.html to http://www.reckonings.net/photos/vigelandphotos/index.html
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.
Cheers. —cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 10:17, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Substituted at 16:52, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you mean Emmanuel Vigeland? http://www.emanuelvigeland.museum.no/mausoleet.htm Robocon1 (talk) 15:43, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: From the Vigeland museum section: "His ashes are still preserved there in the belfry of the building." Does the 'belfry' on top of this building have bells in it? If it doesn't it's not a belfry. Robocon1 (talk) 14:01, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vigeland museum belfry 

message: Robocon1, I couldn't be more an amateur on Wikipedia and am not going to delete more text unless further discussion doesn't lead anywhere constructive. 
1. Without knowing the Wiki rules I would wonder on the basis of common sense whether justifying text by referring to other Wikipedia text (the Norwegian Wikipedia version on Vigeland) makes sense, if it's precisely the Wikpedia text that's in question.
2. This bears no relation to Wagner.  Wagner's views were proactive and he vigoriously and prolifically expressed them including in books he wrote. Vigeland made some passing comments including some of them as an artist naturally obsessed with his sculpture park presumably to try to keep the all-powerful occupying army or rogue indivuduals from it to vandalize or desecrate either through indifference or malice. 
Anything else he said as far as I know are just passing comments--unattractive ones to be sure, not much more or else.
3. In such a case to make the entire critical reception or legacy part consist of the most inflammatory elements of criticism possible to make, common sense would suggest to be one-sided and biased tendentious rather than unbiased and agenda-less and impartial.
4. I have owned a lot of Vigeland and have never seen this before, including the large English Abrams art volume of his work called "Embrace of Life." Abrams is a prestigious art publisher; if you want to use Wikipedia text to evaluate Wikipedia text, look at the Wikipedia article on "Abrams books."
5. If you want another "real" source or at least one external to Wikipedia itself, try the article on Gustav Vigeland in the online Norwegian Encylopedia or "Store norske leksikon" at https://snl.no/Gustav_Vigeland an on the Vigelandsparken at https://snl.no/Vigelandsparken. Neither of these two Store norske leksikon articles mention anything of this. yet you make this, again most inflammatory or negative critical angle that it is possible to give as the *one and only* critical angle, period, in the entire Vigeland article as it now stands.
6. Hence my original deletion, which so far to me seems justified. It seems to me the one-sided extremely negative comments need either to be deleted or also angles of critical praise added.  
For example the Store norske leksikon says in the Vigelandsparken article this critical assessment: "5. Livshjulet avslutter hovedaksen i vest. Skulpturen er en kolossal hjulgruppe i bronse, bestående av syv svevende figurer, hvorav fire voksne og tre barn. Disse er føyet sammen slik at de utgjør en sirkelform. Vigeland benyttet seg av geometriske grunnformer til ornamentale sammensetninger av figurer. Med sirkelen som evighetssymbol kan skulpturgruppen ses som symbol på det menneskelige fellesskap, hvor den enkelte figur eller gruppe ikke eksisterer alene, men går opp i en høyere enhet.
Vigelands plan og ønske med parkanlegget var å oppnå en syntese av natur og kultur og at betrakteren skulle gå organisk i ett med den. Det ikke-figurative kunstuttrykket som preget hans samtid, fikk liten innflytelse på ham. Stilmessig skjer det likevel endringer gjennom hans arbeid med anlegget; fra det romantiske og intime i tregruppene ved Fontenen til en mer monumental og jordnær skildring av menneskeslekten på Monolittplatået. Menneskets allmenne grunnvilkår, dets rike register av følelser og krefter, forble imidlertid sentral tematikk gjennom hele hans kunstneriske virke."
If nothing like this can be added to the critical assessment in the article, then my deletions of the inflamatory one-sided comments seem to be justified and should be reverted back to and to be sustained. 
Thanks and respects. 
Jarowe91
Jarowe91 (talk) 15:30, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The section referred to was a translation of parts of a section in the Wikipedia article on Vigeland in Norwegian titled Vigeland og nasjonalsosialismen (Vigeland and National Socialism) https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Vigeland:
"Vigelands skulpturkunst er nært beslektet med den rådende stilretningen innen nasjonalsosialistisk kunst, med Arno Breker som den ledende representanten innen skulpturkunsten. Mange kunstkritikere har beskrevet Vigelands skulpturarbeider, særlig Vigelandsanlegget, som preget av et fascistisk kunstideal.[13] Den kjente kunstkritikeren Pola Gauguin skrev om Vigelandsanlegget at «hele Tørtberg-anlegget ånder av nazistisk mentalitet: Bruskulpturen, med den sammenbitte kraftutfoldelse, er som sprunget ut av pannen på Kraft durch Freude-bevegelsen, hvor all livsutfoldelse er blitt hermetisert».[14] Vigelands forhold til nazismen har vært mye debattert. Under krigen ble bevilgningene til Vigelands arbeid i Frognerparken økt og Vigeland skrev selv at han «med glede» åpnet sitt atelier for fremtredende nazister og at han «tør trygt la tyske soldater med sin utpregede disiplin bevege seg mellom mine arbeider». Vigeland søkte også selv de tyske myndighetene om midler til sitt arbeid. Vigelands sønn, som han riktignok ikke hadde noe kontakt med, var et aktivt medlem av Nasjonal Samling.[15]"
The quotations concerning similarities with Arno Breker's work and Pola Gauguin's opinions are cited to published sources. The Norwegian original also has a direct quote from Vigeland published in the newspaper Aftenposten stating that he welcomed German soldiers to walk around his studio:
"By many art critics, Vigeland's sculptures were considered expressions of Nazi or fascist aesthetics, and he is often compared to Arno Breker. In the years shortly after his wartime death, art critic Pola Gauguin wrote that the Vigeland installation "reeks of Nazi mentality."[9] Torgrim Eggen and Jörg Modrow compare Vigeland's work to Nazi and Stalinist monumental art.[10] Vigeland himself sympathized with Nazi Germany, and stated while living under Norway's Nazi collaborationist puppet government during the Second World War, that he was "happy" to accept prominent Nazis in his atelier, and that "I welcome German soldiers with their excellent discipline to walk around between my work."[11]
See http://everything.explained.today/Gustav_Vigeland/
Robocon1 (talk) 18:03, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I am restoring this section under the more relevant title of Nazi affinities for the reasons listed above, derived from the above text, adding links where relevant, and citing it to the online encyclopedia article referred to above.  Robocon1 (talk) 16:14, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed this for now; that "online encyclopedia" is a simple mirror of a previous version of this very article. Attribution is provided on the page. I have no position in your content dispute, but you will need to use an alternate source that meets WP:RS. Kuru (talk) 13:43, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: As I've already pointed out, the 'previous version of this very article' is a translation from the Norwegian Wikipedia article on Vigeland (as are all the other sections in this English language article). The various points are all cited there, in the section titled Vigeland og nasjonalsosialismen (under 'Arven', Legacy in English, together with the fact that Vigeland's work is featured on some stamps) which has been part of the Norwegian article since December 2014 without being challenged. It was removed by Jarowe91 for a reason that doesn't make sense. There is no contradiction in an artist being important nationally (and internationally) and having unpleasant political associations. Any encyclopedia article on Richard Wagner includes his anti-semitic views, as is the case here on Wikipedia. I am restoring this section with the cites used in the Norwegian Wikipedia article. Please do not remove it again without discussing the matter here first. Robocon1 (talk) 16:58, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: 2017 comments

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 4 external links on Gustav Vigeland. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100520003446/http://members.cox.net/c.kau/Vigeland/ to http://members.cox.net/c.kau/Vigeland/
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20101024104830/http://www.fpvenner.no/index.htm to http://www.fpvenner.no/index.htm
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120127072105/http://www.fpvenner.no/kart.html to http://www.fpvenner.no/kart.html
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120322024951/http://www.vestagdermuseet.no/artikkel.aspx?m=228&amid=2282 to http://www.vestagdermuseet.no/artikkel.aspx?m=228&amid=2282
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 02:18, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified