Details
Details can form a particular and unique work of art. Differentiated and extracted from the original, they can convey different stories. They allow us to discover the technique and ascribe different meanings to things usually not visible.
Presented details form part of paintings displayed in different locations, particularly in the National Museum in Warsaw, with its exceptional collection of Polish painting, and Musée d'Orsay. They are arranged in three categories: Faces and hands, Still life and fabrics and Architecture and landscapes.
The site allows to compare technique of such artists like Velázquez, Whistler and Olga Boznańska, all three connected through similar inspirations, colors and technique of loose brushstrokes originating in the 16th century Venetian painting developed by Tintoretto. The stains of color fuse into coherence when viewed from a certain distance to form a model's face, a flower or a glass object.
Reproductions are available only in the presented resolution, all unauthorized use is not allowed. Please contact us in order to obtain permission to reuse.
Presented details form part of paintings displayed in different locations, particularly in the National Museum in Warsaw, with its exceptional collection of Polish painting, and Musée d'Orsay. They are arranged in three categories: Faces and hands, Still life and fabrics and Architecture and landscapes.
The site allows to compare technique of such artists like Velázquez, Whistler and Olga Boznańska, all three connected through similar inspirations, colors and technique of loose brushstrokes originating in the 16th century Venetian painting developed by Tintoretto. The stains of color fuse into coherence when viewed from a certain distance to form a model's face, a flower or a glass object.
Reproductions are available only in the presented resolution, all unauthorized use is not allowed. Please contact us in order to obtain permission to reuse.
Olga Boznańska
Olga Boznańska is considered as one of the most distinguished painters of the Young Poland movement, active in Munich and Paris. She was born in 1865 and died in 1940.
She received first drawing lessons from her mother, Eugenia Mondan. Between 1886-1889 she studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Karl Kricheldorf and Wilhelm Dürr. Boznańska mastered her skills by copying the works of old masters in the Old Pinakothek and Diego Velázquez in Vienna. When in Munich, she opened her own studio, under the auspices of Józef Brandt and Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski. Her artistic formation was influenced by sophisticated art of James McNeill Whistler, and artists placed on the border between realism and impressionism, Edouard Manet and Wilhelm Leibl. During the Munich period she created large, full-length portraits inspired by Velázquez (Portrait of a boy in middle school uniform, c. 1890).
Since 1886, when she made her debut at the Kraków Society of Friends of the Fine Arts, she presented her works at exhibitions in Poland, Europe and the United States, including Berlin (1892, 1893, 1913), Munich (1893), Prague, London and Paris (1896), the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (1901, 1906, 1907, 1920-1928), Vienna (1902, 1908), Amsterdam (1912) and Venice (1910, 1914, 1938). Boznańska was repeatedly awarded, including a gold medal at the international exhibition in Munich (1905), the French Legion of Honour (1912), Grand Prix at the Expo in Paris (1939) and the Order of Polonia Restituta (1938). In 1898 she settled permanently in Paris.
She received first drawing lessons from her mother, Eugenia Mondan. Between 1886-1889 she studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Karl Kricheldorf and Wilhelm Dürr. Boznańska mastered her skills by copying the works of old masters in the Old Pinakothek and Diego Velázquez in Vienna. When in Munich, she opened her own studio, under the auspices of Józef Brandt and Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski. Her artistic formation was influenced by sophisticated art of James McNeill Whistler, and artists placed on the border between realism and impressionism, Edouard Manet and Wilhelm Leibl. During the Munich period she created large, full-length portraits inspired by Velázquez (Portrait of a boy in middle school uniform, c. 1890).
Since 1886, when she made her debut at the Kraków Society of Friends of the Fine Arts, she presented her works at exhibitions in Poland, Europe and the United States, including Berlin (1892, 1893, 1913), Munich (1893), Prague, London and Paris (1896), the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (1901, 1906, 1907, 1920-1928), Vienna (1902, 1908), Amsterdam (1912) and Venice (1910, 1914, 1938). Boznańska was repeatedly awarded, including a gold medal at the international exhibition in Munich (1905), the French Legion of Honour (1912), Grand Prix at the Expo in Paris (1939) and the Order of Polonia Restituta (1938). In 1898 she settled permanently in Paris.
Faces and hands
Still life and fabrics
Architecture and landscapes
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