Tage Åsén (born 1943) is a

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and painter. He works in a technique which has been described by art critics as super-realistic or hyper-realistic. The motif in his paintings is a critical "social

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" that is predicated on a dark and wry humour. His paintings have been used as covers for a number of books and music albums since his first exhibition (1968). Most notable among these is perhaps the covers for the Swedish rock group

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, ranging from " Måltid" (1972) to "

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" (2002). He also made the book cover paintings of " De heliga geograferna" (1973) and " Guddöttrarna" (1975), the first two novels about Sunne by the Swedish writer

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Tage Åsén exhibits at

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External links

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