Talk:Jais Nielsen

A fact from Jais Nielsen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 February 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Jais Nielsen's biblical works (glass mosaic windows pictured) and his creations for Royal Copenhagen overshadowed his paintings?

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Plagiarism

This article is an almost direct translate from the Ulla Grut article. But because the odd word here and there has been changed or omitted, it doesn't read as well.

Apart from the obvious plagiarism, it reads as if the writers are not really familiar with Nielsen's ceramics. There is a statement that the ceramic works overshadowed the painted works, but the character of them is unclear.

The stained glass window needed labelling as such, not a "glass mosaic". Glass mosaic is the sort of mosaic one finds in Byzantine buildings.

The art object in the church is a Baptismal font, in other words an essential church fitting, rather than simply a decorative work of art.

The single most important statement that occurs in Grut's article is about the way in which Nielsen's ceramic art broke the boundaries of painting and sculpture. This statement is worth quoting directly.

I will attempt to reorganise the article so that it is not quite so plagiaristic.

Amandajm (talk) 08:42, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy to see such a constructive approach to improving the article. All the above suggestions seem sensible. As for plagerism, it is extremely difficult to find good sources on Danish artists but the Kunstindeks Damanrk/Weilbach kunstnerleksikon is usually an excellent reference. If you would like to rework the presentation, so much the better.--Ipigott (talk) 09:53, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately the best online source that I can find with good descriptions of his ceramics is a commercial one: Freeform. I'm still looking. Can you get hold of the 1960s exhibition catalogue, by any chance? Amandajm (talk) 10:16, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Can't find "De Tretten" online anywhere. Amandajm (talk) 10:21, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still a couple of refs short. Got a bit distracted by Kai Nielsen. There is this curious dichotomy between the exquisite refinement of the illustrations to East of the Sun and West of the Moon and his extraordinarily sensual sculpture. Amandajm (talk) 11:57, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You'll find a bit on "De Tretten" here. I think it will be difficult to find the 1960 catalogue (although the British Library lists a copy) but there is a much more recent publication from 2009 now mentioned in the article.--Ipigott (talk) 13:19, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]