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Hip, Hip, Hurrah! is an 1888 oil painting by Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer. Hip, Hip, Hurrah! is an 1888 oil painting on canvas by Peder Severin Krøyer. It shows various members of the Skagen group of painters: a group of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish artists who formed a community in this northernmost town in Jutland, Denmark, in the 1880s and early 1890s. Hip, Hip, Hourra! is typical of the work of the Skagen painters, in the style of the French Impressionists and Naturalists. The painting makes use of the play of light, and is similar in composition and subject matter to some of Renoir's paintings. At the same time, however, it harks back to the tradition of gatherings of friends by artists from the Danish Golden Age, such as Ditlev Blunck, Constantin Hansen and Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz. The painting was begun in 1884, after a party at the home of another artist, Michael Peter Ancher. It took four years to complete, but caused a rift between the two painters, with Peder Severin Krøyer insisting on access to the site. It was exhibited at Charlottenborg in 1888. From left to right, the people represented are: Martha Møller Johansen, her husband, the painter Viggo Johansen, the Norwegian painter Christian Krohg, Krøyer, Degn Brøndum (Anna Ancher's brother), Michael Peter Ancher, the Swedish painter Oscar Björck, the Danish painter Thorvald Niss, the professor Helene Christensen (who was in love with Krøyer), the Danish painter Anna Ancher and her daughter Helga [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

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