An article about Stockholm city hall

Swedes regard Stockholm City Hall as their pride, because it is not only a landmark building in this country and even the whole northern Europe, but also a place where the Nobel dinner is held every year. But strangely, the Swedes have never published a photo album devoted to Stockholm City Hall. When asked why, the Swedes replied that they were too familiar with the city hall.

There is no need to take a special photo album. Until recently, the publication of an album called Beauty of the Unknown changed this view. Looking at Stockholm City Hall from the other side of Lake Meralen, the strongest visual impact of this building is the dazzling red brick wall and the golden dome shining in the sun, which makes the city hall stand out in the snow-covered winter and the rippling summer. However, in the unknown beauty, the author chose a foggy day to photograph the whole building in the future. As a result, the color of the red wall faded, the light of the golden dome disappeared without a trace, and the city hall seemed to be integrated with the fog and the lake. This looks like a splash-ink landscape painting in China's paintings.

Inside and outside the city hall, there are hundreds of large and small figure sculptures. From an artistic point of view, these sculptures are not.

High-quality goods are often overlooked. However, in Beauty of the Unknown, the sculpture becomes smart: in late winter and early spring, huge ice cubes float on the water, which is clearly a flowing stage, and the female statues by the lake are dancing dancers; In the summer morning, spiders form a net between the hand and body of the statue, and dew condenses in the net, giving the stone carving full vitality. All these reflect the beauty of dynamic and static combination and the interest of harmony between man and nature in China traditional culture. Swedes who are quite familiar with Stockholm City Hall often ask this question after seeing the photo album. Is this the town hall they are familiar with? According to the map, they finally found the photographer's shooting angle, so they found that the so-called "unknown beauty" is not actually shooting those unknown corners, but precisely the places that people are most familiar with, giving another culture a brand-new interpretation and interpretation. "Unknown" is more precisely because people do not find the beauty that can be seen from another angle because of a habitual thinking.

Different cultures give different interpretations to the world, but beauty is eternal. Maybe this is the meaning of the beauty of the unknown.