Mortensen memulai debut filmnya dengan peran dalam film thriller karya Peter Weir tahun 1985 Witness. Sepanjang akhir tahun 1990-an, Mortensen memainkan peran pendukung dalam berbagai film, termasuk film romantis bertema sejarah The Portrait of a Lady (1996), drama aksi G.I. Jane (1997), drama kriminal A Perfect Murder (1998), dan komedi 28 Days (2000).
Selain film, Mortensen telah menekuni berbagai bidang seni lainnya termasuk melukis, menulis puisi, bermusik, dan fotografi. Mortensen menggubah dan membawakan musik untuk film-film termasuk soundtrack The Lord of the Rings, dan telah berkolaborasi dengan gitaris Buckethead di beberapa album. Pada tahun 2002, Mortensen mendirikan Perceval Press untuk menerbitkan karya-karyanya dan karya-karya seniman serta penulis yang kurang dikenal.
Bibiliografi
Ten Last Night (1993), his first collection of poetry;
Recent Forgeries (1998), ISBN, 5th Edition, documents Viggo's first solo exhibition and includes a CD with music and spoken-word poetry. Introduction by Dennis Hopper;
Errant Vine (2000), limited edition booklet of an exhibit at the Robert Mann Gallery. Only about 300 were published at the time of the exhibition so it is a very rare book;
Hole in the Sun (2002, ISBN), color and black and white photographs of a back yard swimming pool;
Coincidence of Memory (2002, ISBN Third Edition, in this book, the artist combines photographs, paintings, and poems that cover his artistic output from 1978 to 2002;
Mo Te Upoko-o-te-ika/For Wellington (2003), ISBN, a book to accompany the joint exhibitions at Massey University and the Wellington City Gallery during the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King;
45301 (2003), ISBN, Abstract images, fragments and phrases from poems create this photography book. Many of the photographs were shot during travels to Morocco, Cuba, and the northern plains of the United States;
Un hueco en el sol (2003), a small booklet was published to accompany the exhibition "Un hueco en el sol" at the Fototeca de Cuba in Havana. In Spanish;
Miyelo (2003), ISBN X), a series of panoramic photographs of a LakotaGhost Dance. It also tells about the events leading up to the massacre at Wounded Knee;
The Horse is Good (2004), ISBN, a photography book partly shot during his work on the film Hidalgo about horses as partners, teachers, and fellow travelers. Images from Morocco, South Dakota, Montana, California, Iceland, Selandia Baru, Denmark, Brazil, Argentina.
Diskografi
Diskografi utama ialah Don't Tell Me What to Do, Intelligence Failure, One Less Thing to Worry About, One Man's Meat, Live at Beyond Baroque, The Other Parade, This That and The Other, Live at Beyond Baroque 2, Pandemoniumfromamerica, dan Please Tomorrow.
Referensi
↑Stone, Andrew; Carolyn Bain; Michael Booth; Fran Parnell (2008). "Cinema". Lonely Planet Denmark. Lonely Planet. hlm.46. ISBN978-1-74104-669-4. Although [Mortensen] was born in New York and has lived outside of Denmark for most of his life, he retains Danish citizenship.
↑Nielsen, Marie Ravn (October 23, 2010). "Viggo Mortensen slået til ridder". DR (dalam bahasa Danish). Diarsipkan dari versi aslinya tanggal July 21, 2022. Diakses tanggal July 21, 2022. Pemeliharaan CS1: Bahasa yang tidak diketahui (link)
(Prancis)The Eye and the HandDiarsipkan 2011-02-03 di Wayback Machine. The place to become familiar with Viggo Mortensen the artist. Discussions about Viggo Mortensen's artwork. Glosses and comments about his paintings and photographs, translation of his poems. Personal artwork' gallery.
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