It is a habit that when the "Lady with an Ermine" leave Krakow for a while, then at the Princes Czartoryski Museum displays the work of another eminent artist. Thus, we could instantly view images Raphael (from the Gallery Palatina at Palazzo Pitti in Florence), Titian (Galeria degli Uffizi in Florence) and El Greco (the National Gallery of Art in Washington). Currently, when Krakow exhibited painting by Leonardo is an important exhibition of Italian Renaissance painting "From Botticelli to Titian" at the Museum of Fine Arts (Szépművészeti Múzeum), Budapest, Krakow, we can admire użyczony us through this museum painting "The episode of the Spanish War of Independence" Francisco Goya, famous Spanish painter, one of the forerunners of modern art. Screening of the Spanish master's works held in the Main Building of the National Museum in Krakow, and will run from November 21, 2009 to 14 February 2010. Painted around 1808-1810 years "episode with the Spanish War of Independence, before Goya's masterpiece -" Execution of the insurgents in Madrid May 3, 1808 year "(of 1814), presents a fierce battle more than a dozen people in an empty spot. No one knows who is fighting whom soldiers napoleońscy with Spanish guerrillas, called guerillas or deserters from the army plądrującymi different battlefields grabieżcami. But this is not important. The theme of this work is the hatred and aggression caused by the war.
Film is accompanied by several drawings show Goya's famous series of "atrocities of war" (donated to the National Museum in Krakow by Felix Manggha Jasienski), which presents the war as no one before him - as a totalitarian madness.
These shocking figures are presented on the background of reproduction parts of the so-called black paintings by Goya, painted by the artist on the walls of your home, for myself, as a result of resentment seized the world of religious fanaticism, hatred and fear of loneliness and death. Ortega y Gasset Spanish philosopher, wrote that "Goya shows one of the major characteristics of art that is capable of brutally forcing us to see the most terrible page of life, which is usually at all costs try to avoid."
National Museum in Krakow, al. 3 Maja 1 |
