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National Museum in Cracow, Poland

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National Museum in Cracow, Poland

Gallery of 20th-century Polish Art

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Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929)

Portrait of Helena Marcell

“Jacek Malczewski is one of the most revered painters of Poland, associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following the century of Partitions. He is regarded as father of Polish Symbolism. In his creative output, Malczewski combined the predominant style of his times, with the historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the Romantic ideals of independence, the Christian and Greek traditions, folk mythology, as well as his love of natural environment.”

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Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)

first: View of Thames charing cross bridge

second: View of the Canal Saint Martin

third: Boats on the Seine

“Alfred Sisley was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air. He deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs.”

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Olga Boznańska

left: Girl with Chrysanthemums

right: Silver girl

“Olga Boznańska was a Polish painter of the turn of the 20th century. She was a notable female painter in Poland and Europe, and was stylistically associated with the French impressionism.”

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Johannes Vermeer

Girl with a Pearl Earring

“The painting is a tronie, the Dutch 17th-century description of a ‘head’ that was not meant to be a portrait. It depicts a European girl wearing an exotic dress, an oriental turban, and a large pearl earring.”

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Konstantin Makovsky

In the garden

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Jan Nepomucen Głowacki

Morskie Oko Lake

"Jan Nepomucen Głowacki was a Polish realist painter of the Romantic era, regarded as the most outstanding landscape painter of the early 19th century in Poland under the foreign partitions. His work can be found at the National Museum of Poland and its branches. Some of his work was looted by Nazi Germany in World War II and has never been recovered."

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Pierre Auguste Renoir

top: Spring At Catou

bottom: A Road In Louveciennes

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Pierre Auguste Renoir

Irene Cahen D'Anvers Aka Little Irene

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Pierre-Augoste Renoir

La Grenouillere

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"Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings."

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Caspar David Friedrich

View of a harbour

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René Magritte

Golconda

"Magritte was fascinated by the seductiveness of images. Ordinarily, you see a picture of something and you believe in it, you are seduced by it; you take its honesty for granted. But Magritte knew that representations of things can lie. These images of men aren't men, just pictures of them, so they don't have to follow any rules. This painting is fun, but it also makes us aware of the falsity of representation."

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Teodor Axentowicz

left: In the seaside

right: A reader

"Teodor Axentowicz was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. A renowned artist of his times, he was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an artist, Axentowicz was famous for his portraits and subtle scenes of Hutsul life, set in the Carpathians."

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18

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Antonio Canova

Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss

"It's a masterpiece of Neoclassical sculpture, but shows the mythological lovers at a moment of great emotion, characteristic of the emerging movement of Romanticism. It represents the god Cupid in the height of love and tenderness, immediately after awakening the lifeless Psyche with a kiss."