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On 27 May 1964, the parties in the Folketing, Danish Parliament, except for Independent Party (Denmark), De Uafhængige, voted for the law on Statens Kunstfond. The law introduced a new administrative body, Statens Kunstfond, as well as a reprioritisation and massive expansion of art support, so that it reached 3.5 million Danish krone, kr.
On 29 January 1965, the first young artists received the first three-year scholarships. Within literature, these were Klaus Rifbjerg, Thorkild Hansen, :da:Knud_Holst, Sven Holm, Knud Holst, :da:Ulla_Ryum, Ulla Ryum and :da:Jess_Ørnsbo, Jess Ørnsbo. The tax-financed state support for Rifbjerg in particular caused outrage, as he lived life with expensive cars and trips. However, the subsidies awarded to Peter Bonnén from Statens Kunstfond also caused outrage. :da:Ordnet.dk, Ordnet.dk, a website by the :da:Det_Danske_Sprog-_og_Litteraturselskab, Danish Language and Literature Society, defines rindalism as "opposition to or distancing from public financial support for artists and art purchases".
During a press conference against the new arts subsidies law, which apparently got behind both Progress Party (Denmark), Progress Party politicians, artists and cultural mediators, Peter Rindal and his supporters quickly managed to collect around 60,000 protest signatures. However, the protests did not have much significance for the Statens Kunstfond or its administration, whose budget quickly grew from 3,5 million kr. in 1965 to 41,8 million kr. in 1993 and 73,1 million kr. in 2005. According to ''Dagbladet Information'' in 2009, the term rindalism was first used by the Tabloid journalism, tabloid newspaper ''Ekstra Bladet''.
In 2022, member of the Danish Parliament Henrik Dahl (politician), Henrik Dahl (Liberal Alliance (Denmark), LA) described himself as an rindalist. In 2023, Alex Ahrendtsen (Danish People's Party, DF), also MF, published a book about rindalism titled ''Rindal: Kampen mod kultureliten og velfærdsstaten'' (Rindal: The struggle against the cultural elite and the welfare state), in which context Dahl called for the revival of rindalism.
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, rindalism (Danish
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: ) refers to opposition to abstract art
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th ...
and especially public funding thereof. Named after , the term covered the mid-1960s
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movement in Denmark against the establishment of Danish Arts Foundation, Statens Kunstfond.
Background
On 27 May 1964, the parties in the Folketing, Danish Parliament, except for Independent Party (Denmark), De Uafhængige, voted for the law on Statens Kunstfond. The law introduced a new administrative body, Statens Kunstfond, as well as a reprioritisation and massive expansion of art support, so that it reached 3.5 million Danish krone, kr.
On 29 January 1965, the first young artists received the first three-year scholarships. Within literature, these were Klaus Rifbjerg, Thorkild Hansen, :da:Knud_Holst, Sven Holm, Knud Holst, :da:Ulla_Ryum, Ulla Ryum and :da:Jess_Ørnsbo, Jess Ørnsbo. The tax-financed state support for Rifbjerg in particular caused outrage, as he lived life with expensive cars and trips. However, the subsidies awarded to Peter Bonnén from Statens Kunstfond also caused outrage. :da:Ordnet.dk, Ordnet.dk, a website by the :da:Det_Danske_Sprog-_og_Litteraturselskab, Danish Language and Literature Society, defines rindalism as "opposition to or distancing from public financial support for artists and art purchases".
During a press conference against the new arts subsidies law, which apparently got behind both Progress Party (Denmark), Progress Party politicians, artists and cultural mediators, Peter Rindal and his supporters quickly managed to collect around 60,000 protest signatures. However, the protests did not have much significance for the Statens Kunstfond or its administration, whose budget quickly grew from 3,5 million kr. in 1965 to 41,8 million kr. in 1993 and 73,1 million kr. in 2005. According to ''Dagbladet Information'' in 2009, the term rindalism was first used by the Tabloid journalism, tabloid newspaper ''Ekstra Bladet''.
In 2022, member of the Danish Parliament Henrik Dahl (politician), Henrik Dahl (Liberal Alliance (Denmark), LA) described himself as an rindalist. In 2023, Alex Ahrendtsen (Danish People's Party, DF), also MF, published a book about rindalism titled ''Rindal: Kampen mod kultureliten og velfærdsstaten'' (Rindal: The struggle against the cultural elite and the welfare state), in which context Dahl called for the revival of rindalism.
References
{{Reflist Art criticism Arts in Denmark Progress Party (Denmark) politicians Counterculture of the 1960s