Eftir listakonuna Barb\u00f6ru \u00c1rnason (1911-75) liggja \u00f3tal fj\u00f6lbreytt verk, b\u00f3kaskreytingar, svartlist, g\u00f3lf\u00e1brei\u00f0ur, veggskreytingar, myndkl\u00e6\u00f0i og teikningar. H\u00fan var af enskum uppruna og f\u00e6dd \u00ed Petersfield, Su\u00f0ur Englandi. \u00deegar abstraktlistin var a\u00f0 spretta fram \u00ed \u00edslensku menningarl\u00edfi me\u00f0 \u00f6llum \u00feeim deilum sem henni fylgdu snerti \u00fea\u00f0 Barb\u00f6ru l\u00edti\u00f0 sem ekkert. H\u00fan kaus \u00fea\u00f0 a\u00f0 fara eigin lei\u00f0ir \u00ed listsk\u00f6pun sinni og var \u00e1vallt a\u00f0 prufa sig \u00e1fram me\u00f0 n\u00fdja mi\u00f0lun \u00ed myndlistinni. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Barbara skapa\u00f0i miki\u00f0 af d\u00fdramyndum \u00fear sem n\u00e1tt\u00faran og d\u00fdr \u00e1ttu vel vi\u00f0 hana. \u00cd m\u00f6rgum verkum s\u00ednum veitir h\u00fan \u00fdmsum sm\u00e1atri\u00f0um \u00ed n\u00e1tt\u00farunni athygli og n\u00e6r a\u00f0 fanga fegur\u00f0 \u00feeirra \u00e1 sinn einstaka h\u00e1tt. H\u00fan teikna\u00f0i og m\u00e1la\u00f0i einnig portrettmyndir af alls konar f\u00f3lki. Barbara ger\u00f0i \u00feessa vatnslitamynd af sj\u00e1lfri s\u00e9r \u00e1ri\u00f0 1945 og er h\u00fan 33 x 28 cm a\u00f0 st\u00e6r\u00f0. Barbara var gift listamanninum Magn\u00fasi \u00c1. \u00c1rnasyni og bjuggu \u00feau me\u00f0al annars \u00ed K\u00f3pavogi eftir giftingu \u00ed Englandi. Ger\u00f0arsafn f\u00e9kk st\u00f3ran hluta af verkum \u00feeirra hj\u00f3na \u00ed safneign s\u00edna fr\u00e1 minningarsj\u00f3\u00f0i \u00feeirra hj\u00f3na. Listakonan var hei\u00f0ru\u00f0 af F\u00e9lagi \u00edslenskra myndlistarmanna \u00e1ri\u00f0 1961 og var yfirlitss\u00fdning me\u00f0 verkum hennar \u00ed kj\u00f6lfari\u00f0 \u00ed Listamannask\u00e1lanum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22646,"template":"","artwork-category":[211],"artists":[209],"class_list":["post-22645","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artwork-category-safneign","artists-barbara-arnason"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/22645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/22645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artwork-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork-category?post=22645"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=22645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}