Artsy

I've thought about 'Art', twice this week which makes the past 7 days the most artistic of my life. The first musings go with thanks to the much anticipated work of 'Elzbieta Wysakowska-Walters', as featured on TLW. The second is down to a pair of limited edition tea-cups my wife gave to me as a birthday present. Receiving cups as a birthday present is obviously an unfortunate sign of my ageing but never mind they are beautiful nonetheless and both depict the painting 'Macierzyństwo (The Motherhood), 1905 by Stanisław Wyspiański.

I'm a fan of the painting mainly for it's use of colour. The blues and greens are very tasty and I'm considering using the blue as an inspiration for the colour of my house when it gets painted next year. I like the cups however, because they declare my liking of Wyspiański, who can be credited with being one of the most patriotic Polish artists ever, to all who visit my house for tea.

Stanisław Wyspiański, Macierzyństwo, 1905

Wyspiański was a master of all trades proving his competency in both painting and writing. My favourite of his writing work is 'Wesele', which in my opinion Wyspiański wrote as a kick up the bum directed towards the Polish nation as a whole during the early years of the 20th Century. The play is focused around a wedding party where the Polish party-goers get the bright idea to call for a revolution in Poland, and subsequently manage to mess it up and achieve nothing. It draws very nice  parallels with a modern day Polish disaster which is the road network. A lot of loud words and nothing much else.

Wesele, (The Wedding) was adapted by Andrzej Wajda in 1972 and this version can be viewed, in part, on Youtube
Apart from the fact I like to provide my own little insights into Polish history and patriotism, I also have a patriotic and maybe artistic drawing of my own. My tattoo on my back which is three years old this week.

The top half of the heart is filled in white and the bottom edged in red i.e. the orientation and colours of the Polish flag ;) I have another 'embarrasing' tattoo but maybe I'll reveal that one at a later date.

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous12 March 2011 at 17:28

    How big is the tat? it's not the worst i've seen lol

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  2. Jeremy12 March 2011 at 22:21

    Thank you on my wife's behalf for the promotion :)

    Your description of Stanisław Wyspiański makes me want to hear more. I assume you read it in English.

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  3. Texas lass13 March 2011 at 10:45

    wow, that film on youtube is rather strange. I guess you need to know a lot about Polish culture to understand it, which unfortunately I don't

    But it has to be said, thanks for bringing some eastern European culture this sunday morning!

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  4. femme magazine16 June 2012 at 11:16

    nie post ... thank you

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