Profanum – Paintings
Obrazy z serii Profanum
nawiązują do najlepszych przykładów arcydzieł sztuki
światowej i są wizualną interpretacją obrazów wielkich
mistrzów takich jak Rafael, Rubens, Rembrandt, Botticelli, Giorgione, Cezanne, Konczałowki
czy Braque. Obrazy te były tworzone przez prof. Z. Leś. W
badaniach nad rozumieniem bardzo jasno widoczny jest zakres znaczeniowy
„sacrum” i „profanum”. Teologia to nie mitologia i w dzisiejszym
świecie „kultury” zacieranie granic pomiędzy tymi sferami
poznania prowadzi do swoistej pandemii bezrozumności czy też
wszędobylskiej głupoty. Mitologiczne tematy to bezmiar naszych
mrocznych ludzkich tęsknot, pragnień i pożądań
skrytych we wnętrzu symbolicznych form i alegorycznych obrazów.
Desymbolizacja wsparta na alchemii znaczeń tylko w niewielkim
stopniu przybliża nas do celu stąpania po pewnym gruncie
ikonicznej hermeneutyki. Ten mroczny świat nieogarniętego symbolu
i alegorycznej formy można rozjaśnić tylko przy pomocy
teologicznej wiedzy lub też mistycznego doświadczenia, tak
niestety niedostępnego dla ogromu demograficznego zatłoczenia.
Mimo pozoru swej nieistotności znaczeniowej „pejzaż” czy
„martwa natura” przemawiają niekiedy bardzo silnie językiem
ikonicznej polifonii. Tutaj to już tylko platońskie oko i
zmysł widzenia niewidzialnych zjawisk w postaci postbergsonowskiej
intuicji.
MYTHOLOGICAL
SCENES
1. Sandro di Botticelli „The Birth of Venus” („Narodziny Wenus”)
In the centre of the painting, the newly-born
goddess Venus stands nude in a giant shell. At the left the wind god
Zephyr blows at her, with the wind shown by lines radiating from his
mouth. He is in the air and carries a young female, who is also blowing,
but less forcefully. Both have wings. Their joint efforts are blowing
Venus toward the shore, and blowing the hair and clothes of the other
figures to the right.
This painting is among the most famous paintings
in the world and icon of the Italian Renaissance.
2. Giorgione „The Sleeping Venus” („Śpiąca Wenus”)
In the painting “The Sleeping Venus” a
Greek goddess Venus is presented with the semi-erotic positioning of the
arms, one of which is raised, the other being placed near the groin. An
innovation in this painting is the use of a landscape to frame the
sleeping goddess. Giorgione was the first painter to widely paint
landscapes with figures.
SCENY
MITOLOGICZNE
1. S. Botticelli „The Birth of Venus”
3. Giorgione „The Sleeping Venus”
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4. Rembrandt „Danae”
This is one
of Rembrandt’s most significant paintings inspired by love. It shows the
mythical character of Danae, a princess of Argos, whose father shut her
up in a tower, as he was foretold that he would die at the hand of, as
yet, unborn grandson. However, Zeus attracted by the girl’s beauty, came
to her in the form of a shower of gold. She is presumably depicted as
welcoming Zeus, to her bad. Later she bore him a son, Perseus. The
splendid bed forms a precious setting for her figure and the golden light
pouring from the depth and indicating the approach of Zeus, creates a
glowing warm atmosphere around the young woman. Her beauty lies not in
bodily perfection, but in the sense of the anxious expectation of love.
5. Rubens „Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus” („Porwanie córek Leukipa„)
The painting depicts the mortal Castor and the
immortal Pollux abducting Phoebe and Hilaeira, daughters of Leucippus.
Castor the horse-tamer is recognisable from his armour, whilst Pollux the
boxer is shown with a bare and free upper body. They are also
distinguished by their horses – Castor’s is well-behaved and supported by
a putto, whereas Pollux’s is rearing.
4. Rembrandt „Danae” 5.
Rubens „Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus”
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1. Rubens „The Battle of the Amazons” („Bitwa Amazonek”)
The is one of the finest Ruben’s paintings,
crowded with figures and incidents. It depicts Amazon’s retreat in a
battle with the Greeks under Theseus on a bridge over the River
Thermo-don. A firm arch of figures contains the whole mass of violent
movements and warm colours and dominates the masonry bridge, on which the
Athenians overtake the Amazons as
the battle moves in one direction, from left to right. The bride is to
small for the figures, and horses and riders topple, hurtle or slither
from it. Horses snort, prance and bite. Weapons are raised and thrusts
made and parried. On the crown of the bridge, from which dangles the arm
of a headless body, a man on foot tug the Amazon standard from a rider
already thrust through with a spire.
The water too is full of figures, falling,
swimming, shielding themselves from falling bodies and flailing horses.
Every figure adds to the narrative, while on the skyline a city burns,
its smoke sweeping up behind the seething mass of bodies and continuing
its motion into the sky.
2. Rafael „The School of Athens” (“Szkoła ateńska”)
“The School of Athens” is one of a group of four main frescoes on the
wall of the Stanza in Vatican that depict distinct branches of knowledge.
Plato and Aristotle appear to be the central figures in the scene. The
rhetorical gestures of Plato and Aristotle are kind of pointing (to the
heaven, and down to the earth) is popularly accepted as likely. Plato’s
Timaeus – which is the book Raphael places in his hand – was a
sophisticated treatment of space, time, and change, including the Earth,
which guided mathematical sciences for over a millennium. Aristotle, with his four-elements
theory, held that all change on Earth was owing to motion of the heavens.
In the paining Aristotle carries his Ethics, which he denied could be
reduced to a mathematical science.
The architecture contains Roman elements, but
the general semi-circular setting having Plato and Aristotle at its
centre might be alluding to Pythagoras’ monad.
1. Rubens „The Battle of the Amazons” 2.
Rafael „The School of Athens”
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STILL LIFE
1. Paul Cezanne ”Still life with a Curtain” („Martwa natura z
zasłoną”)
In this painting the curtain is dividing the
background into two parts. We can see many objects within this work and
the peaches, and other fruits; they luck of innate detail. The
contrasting of different masses, modelled by resonant light, creates a
dynamic composition, and gives an element of tension to the space. At the
same time, the painting is dominated by a balance of form and colour
which creates an impression of unity and stability in this material
world.
2. Piotr Konczałowski ”Still life with olives” („Martwa natura z oliwkami”)
Piotr Konczalowski is very famous of his still
life paintings. The presented masterpiece, still life with olives, is
one of the best paintings by Konczalowski.
3. Georges Braque „Still life” („Martwa natura”)
Braque worked alongside Pablo Picasso as the two
developed the new style of cubism around 1910.
This painting is typical in Braque’c career,
when he incorporated elements of cubism into still lies and other
subjects. The presented objects emphasize the interplay of pattern and
texture.
1. P. Cezanne
”Still life with a Curtain” 2. P.
Konczałowski ”Still life with olives”
3. G. Braque „Still life”
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LANDSCAPE
1. Iwan Ajwazowski „The
Shipwreck on Northern sea”
(„Burza na morzu północnym”)
The painting “The Shipwreck on
Northern sea’ is
one of the last works by Ivan Aivazovsky in the Romanticism style.
It represents dramatic depiction of a sea storm with the survivors from a
shipwreck. The colours are dark with a white stripe of moonlight across
the middle of the canvas.
1. I. Ajwazowski „The Shipwreck on Northern
sea”
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