The Art Thread

[Adrian]

Sorry, Adrian, I've never heard of that artist.

I didn't tag you in reference of Batowski per se, just to let you know the Polish artists which are recently mentioned in this thread (some of them from Lwów). A thing to be proud of.

Jacek Malczewski, Hamlet Polski (Polish Hamlet), 1903 - National Museum in Warsaw

 

[Hawkwood]

Ah, I was wondering on the figures either side of him but it appears (from a little read) they are interpreted as being two symobolic fates of Poland.

 

[Tironis]

Ah, I was wondering on the figures either side of him but it appears (from a little read) they are interpreted as being two symobolic fates of Poland.

You're probably right - although I was wondering whether they were Ophelia and Gertrude.

 

[Hawkwood]

You're probably right - although I was wondering whether they were Ophelia and Gertrude.

Me Too! Hence the Google search.

 

[Tironis]

Just having another look at that Hamlet. A Polish friend of mine from Krakow looks a bit like that. What is that girl on the left wearing - or rather not wearing?

 

[Agrippa]

She is wearing rags, because she was just released from dungeon

 

[Agrippa]

Dymitr of Goraj and Jadwiga of Poland, painting by Jan Matejko

 

[Adrian]

@Agrippa et alii amici quibus interest. (vide appendix)

Artwork of Jan Matejko (from Poczet Królów Polskich) - King Kazimierz Wielki (Casimir the Great) - Left; Królowa Jadwiga (Queen Hedvig) - right

 

[Quintilianus]

Listening to this :

made me discover Grimshaw.

What a nice painting.

 

[Pacifica]

Very nice indeed.

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Come to England. You'll be Grimshawed to death.

 

[Quintilianus]

The warm glow from the windows is captivating.

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Having said that, I've seen less about than formerly, but that might be just me. And I do rather like them, in case I sounded accidently dismissive.

 

[Quintilianus]

Come to England. You'll be Grimshawed to death.

I had no notion that the risks of getting run over by some kind of cab or cart were that high nowadays in England.

 

[Terry S.]

That would be Rick Shawed.

 

[Pacifica]

The warm glow from the windows is captivating.

Definitely!

 

[Adrian]

William Collins, The South and East Front of Clumber House, Nottinghamshire

 

[Agrippa]

Teofil Kwiatkowski, Last Moments of Frédéric Chopin (+ Oct 17, 1849)

 

[Adrian]

Ivan Shishkin, Misty Morning (1885)

 

[Agrippa]

Я очень люблю эту картину: Утро в сосновом лесу:
Ivan Ivanovič Šiškin: Morning in a Pine Forest