Marianne Aulie

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Marianne Aulie (born 1971 in Lørenskog) is one of the best-selling Norwegian artists.

Aulie met Marianne Sand, and helped her with a movie called Dis in Cairo. Aulie was more or less taken in to the Sand family of artists. With support and encouragement from the Sand family to pursue her art ambitions, Aulie was enrolled in the Oslo Drawing and Painting School (Oslo Tegne og Maleskole).[1]. Aulie in turn encouraged the Sands to open art galleries, and Galleri Sand was eventually opened at both Grünerløkka and Briskeby, Aulies art has been sold there for over 10 million Norwegian crowns.[1].

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[edit] Artwork

Aulie has produced a variety of artwork, including abstract, Madonnas, and images of clowns. One of her techniques is to bathe her works in Champagne in order to get a particular texture from having the alcohol react with the acryl paint.[1]

[edit] Controversies

The art historian Stig Andersen has criticised Aulie's (and Sand's) artwork as being "soft pornography".[2]

In a newspaper advertisement for her work, Aulie used images of her buttocks. Although small images were printed in Aftenposten, the newspaper declined to publish advertisements where the images were considerably larger.[3]

In March 2007, Aulie was interviewed in a live radio NRK P3 broadcast. Towards the end of the interview, she accused and named two celebrities for attempting to drug and rape her in 1993.[4] John G. Bernander, the leader of NRK, apologized for the incident.[5] John Christian Elden, attorney for one of the men Aulie named called the accusations "seriously libellous", and characterized the incident as a PR-stunt [6][7]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c fineart.no Biography on Marianne Aulie (Norwegian)
  2. ^ Aulies kunst er mykporno ("Aulie's art is soft pornography") Aftenposten, April 29, 2006 (Norwegian)
  3. ^ Stoppet naken rumpe (Stopped naked bottom) NRK Kultur, July 7, 2007] (Norwegian)
  4. ^ Navnga to kjendiser som sexovergripere ("Named to celebrities as sex abusers") Aftenposten, March 12, 2007 (Norwegian)
  5. ^ Bernander beklager (Bernander apologizes) Aftenposten, March 13, 2007 (Norwegian)
  6. ^ - Grovt ærekrenkende (Seriously libellous) Aftenposten, March 12, 2007 (Norwegian)
  7. ^ Artist's rape charges draw fire Aftenposten, March 13, 2007