ALEKSANDRA JANISZEWSKA-CARDONE
Images can store memories of long-lost people or objects. Sometimes they even revive them. I experience this feeling every time I look at the animals collected by Roelant Savere in his painting. Especially I am looking for the one hidden in the shadows behind a big bull in the foreground and shown in everlasting dispute…
The model for the Millais painting was Elizabeth Siddal. The young girl lay in a heavy, embroidered dress in a tub full of water. It ended with her pneumonia, but also a permanent place in the pantheon of fame. This is one of the most famous paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites. Siddal soon became the wife…
Have you ever wondered how the stories that we tell ourselves are created? What affects the way they shape in our mind? And how does this affect our experience of the world? I would like to offer you an exercise in looking today. Something like the Rorschach test, only the material will be less abstract….
This stone, double-sided ornamented slab was made over three thousand years BC, so more than fifty centuries ago. Symbolically it marks the beginning of Egyptian ancient art, both due to the time of its creation and the theme of its reliefs. It is also one of the first visual stories of conquest, with the image…