Dala paintings or Kurbits paintings. These figurative paintings were made in Dalarna in Sweden and they had their flourishing period in the years 1790-1850. Kurbits is from the beginning the name of a big plant, with gourds, leaves and flowers, Cucurbita in Latin. This plant has become the main symbol for a painting from Dalarna, but the word has been used so much that in daily speech we often no longer know the meaning of it. A course in “kurbits painting” is probably a course in decorating…
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