Lately I’ve been enjoying working as a researcher, analysing the continental pre-1900 paintings from the collection of the Art Gallery in York. So, let me share my thoughts on one of those paintings here. I actually think that it is possible to interpret it in a slightly different way than…
Frenzy for everybody
One of the most famous masterpieces in the Gallery of 19th century Polish Art (National Museum, Cracow), is “Frenzy of Exultations” by Władysław Podkowiński. It is a painting that still amazes the viewers, although it is over a 100 years old and in spite of the fact that in 21st…
Depressed muse
“Ophelia” is one of the most famous 19th-century English paintings. It was created in 1851-52 by John Everett Millais, and is now kept in the Tate Gallery in London. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. In 1848 John Everett Millais, William Holman…
A true fairy-tale
The painting “King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid” by Edward Burne-Jones, was finished in 1884, exhibited in 1884 in the Grosvenor Gallery and bought by Tate Gallery in London in 1900. Edward Burne-Jones is associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, which was created in 1848 by three students…