THE STONE IS HARD, COMPACT, DENSE, INSOLUBLE, IMPENETRABLE, FIREPROOF. ABOVE ALL, IT WAS A SYMBOL OF THE PRINCIPLE OF INVARIABILITY FOREIGN TO THE ORDINARY WORLD, THE STABILITY OF A FORM THAT LASTS. Stone is often an epiphany – an object…
Sex, drugs, Lempicka. Boundary- Breaking female iconoclasts of our time.
A Polish woman from St. Petersburg, a painter from Paris, an American by choice, a great scandalist and extraordinary personality, a difficult character and great imagination, extravagance, and crazy temperament. Nobody really knows who Tamara was. The femme fatale of…
Philosophical search in the art of living.
Answers to this question can be found in art by the Italian painter Mario Malacrino. The aestheticization of life is conducive to the emergence of light spirits who try to replace the seriousness of existence itself within the life of…
Existence, Woman and …
Emotions, accompany us throughout our lives. Regardless of the times, people have experienced fear, sadness, joy, anxiety, uncertainty, or melancholy. In most cases, we can recognise the direct cause of the emotions that accompany us. Sometimes, however, the reason for…
His fairy-tale world
An artist who can resurrect the Minotaur, summon from the pages of legends, myths and fairy tales, filigree dryads or bloodthirsty strigoi comes from eastern Poland. He is a man who shows kings and queens dethroned by pop culture, but…
A source for Gustave Courbet’s famous The Painter’s Studio
In 1849, the popular illustrated magazine Le Magasin Pittoresque published an etching by Henri Valentin entitled Intérieur de l’atelier d’un artiste au dix-neuvième siècle (“Interior of the studio of an artist in the nineteenth century”), without further details. In his…
Evaluation
Nika Danielska is an alternative fashion designer living in Wroclaw, Poland. She creates wearable artistic objects based mainly on skeletal designs. She is currently part of the impressive new work coming out of Eastern Europe. Nika creates sculptural costumes and…
Last Stand part 3- House of Dolls & Touching the Mystery
House of Dolls Many times, when I thought about life, the analogy of a movie would come to my mind. I was wondering if we write the script of our life ourselves or if we are just actors who are…
Who Runs the World? Royal Entertainment – Last Stand part II
The answer is and always will be women. Women run the world, and the pictures prove this point. Three very famous women which were not just random people entertaining the kings or rulers. Femininity is interpreted differently. Femininity is a…
Last Stand – Manor Bozkow Part 1
We won’t say that Stanley Kubrick invited us to take a selfie. Bowie was always ready for a photoshoot. Most people’s mugshots are usually horrific and the complete opposite of photogenic, but not David Bowie’s… The real art in photography…