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5 Prominent Paintings in Poland

None The National Museum in Warsaw, which has more than 800,000 artworks in its collection, is just one of Poland’s many important museums. It’s also one of the places where these five paintings can be found. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Meeting with the Village Mayor (1873) While the Barbizon school of painters in France were propounding their theories on realism in art from around 1830 to 1870, there was a similar trend for realism in Poland. One of the leading figures in Polish Realist art was Józef Chełmoński, whose paintings are unerringly convincing. Although the artist traveled to Paris in 1875, where his work was received with enthusiasm, he never lost the distinctly Polish quality to his paintings. He trained in Warsaw under Wojciech Gerson, who taught many of the masters of 19th-century Polish art an

5 Interesting Paintings at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra

© Rafael Ben Ari/Dreamstime.com The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra opened in 1982, and its wide-ranging collection comprises tens of thousands of works, including the world’s most significant collection of art by Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This list focuses on five paintings, mostly contemporary, from the museum’s works of Western art. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Blue Poles, Number 11, 1952 (1952) Born in Cody, Wyoming, the youngest of five sons, Jackson Pollock’s childhood was disrupted by the family’s constant moving in search of work. His youth was spent in search of an artistic vocation that he found increasingly elusive and frustrating. Plagued by insecurities, his moods swung between wild, alcohol-fueled, attention-seeking and shy, inarticulate, desperate. His f

5 Revealing Paintings by Caravaggio

SCALA/Art Resource, New York Caravaggio transformed the religious art of his time, using bold compositions and an uncompromising sense of realism to give his pictures a genuine feeling of immediacy. The Conversion on the Way to Damascus is one of his best-known paintings, produced when he was at the height of his powers. The biblical story of Saul’s conversion was a popular subject for artists. A Roman citizen (he is dressed as a Roman soldier in this picture), he was actively persecuting Christians when, on the road to Damascus, he was thrown from his horse and blinded by a heavenly light. Following his conversion he changed his name to Paul. Characteristically, the artist played down the supernatural element, reducing the blinding, celestial rays to a modest glimmer in the upper right-hand corner of the picture. The process of the saint’s conversion is internalized the unkempt groom is unaware of the drama, and seems more concerned with calming the frightened horse. Caravagg

5 Iconic Paintings by Titian

Courtesy of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston The oeuvre of Titian was subject to a number of shifts in import and sensibility over the course of his career. Whereas the bacchanals, painted for the duke of Alfonso d’Este’s studio in Ferrara, were for the most part joyous and inflected with a certain youthful fervor, during the 1550s Titian worked under the patronage of King Philip II. From 1553 he produced seven mythological paintings, all of which were rather more complex in their treatment of the fallibility of the human condition. Titian defined these paintings as poesie or “painted poems.” These took as their subjects themes from ancient mythology. In

These 6 Paintings Shine a Light on Berlin s Past

©Sven Hansche/Shutterstock.com Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. The Pillars of Society (1926) A member of the Dada movement from 1917 to 1920, George Grosz satirized corrupt bourgeois society. As the moving force behind the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, his attacks began to focus on the rising Nazi party. Constantly in trouble with the authorities, he continued to express his revulsion with postwar Germany. The title The Pillars of Society refers to a play by Henrik Ibsen. It shows an old aristocrat in the foreground, his head full of the pageant of war, sporting a dueling scar on his cheek. In his hands he holds a beer glass and a foil. His monocle is opaque he cannot see. On the left is a nationalist with a chamber pot on his head clutching his newspapers. To the right a Social Democrat, his head full

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