30 Mar ABAKANOWICZ: EVERY TANGLE OF THREAD AND ROPE
“The Abakans were a kind of bridge between me and the outside world. I could surround myself with them; I could create an atmosphere in which I somehow felt safe because they...
Art History
27 Mar The Vanitas Motif in Polish Baroque Art: A Reflection on Mortality and Transience
he Baroque period, spanning from the late 16th century to the mid-18th century, was a time of intense artistic and cultural development in Europe. In Poland, this era was marked...
26 Mar Polish Coffin portraits. The Unique side of Baroque Art.
A coffin portrait (Polish: Portret trumienny) was a realistic portrait of the deceased person put on coffins for the funeral and one of the elements of the castrum doloris, but...
24 Mar Blue Sky Research – Polish Baroque Inspiration
A Collaborative Exploration of Polish Baroque Coffin Portraits by Karolina Skorek and Polish Baroque Specialist's- a BleSky Collaboration Idea Project Overview: "Unveiling the Past" is a collaborative exploration of Polish Baroque...
20 Feb Stanisław Witkiewicz
Stanisław Witkiewicz (1885-1939) was a Polish philosopher, writer, and artist who is best known for his contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics. Witkiewicz’s philosophy is characterised by its...
13 Feb Formism – Polish Philosophy and art movement.
Formism (previously known as the Polish expressionism), was a modern art movement active in from 1917 to 1922, proclaiming a departure from Realism, and the solidification of the superiority of...
20 Nov Brief history of Etching
Etching is an intaglio graphic technique, as well as a print obtained with this technique. The etching technique was invented at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, and...
29 Mar London Trip loosing oneself at V&A
V&A might be one of my favourite spaces in London. Anytime I feel loosing inspiration I go wonder around the corridors of this vast building, revisiting "old friends" (art etc)...
26 Feb Oneirocritica Aegyptiaca: Artemidorus of Daldis
According to Artemidorus, the material for his work was gathered during lengthy travels through Greece, Italy and Asia, from diviners of high and low station. Another major source were the...
24 Feb Touching Gods- the brief history of Dreams
Sleep is a very common human condition. We sleep every day, taking ten deep rests without a third of our life. It is something so ordinary, so regularly written into...
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