Breughel Senior had the habit of studying landscapes and works of art upside down. To achieve the desired perspective he would stand with his back to them, and then straddle and bend double, so that his head dangled between his legs. That little eccentricity of his is told to have killed him. Death, in [...]
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faux pas
Tags: emerging artists, graduate show 2009, michal fopp, Paweł Sysiak, polish paintings, Sabina Błażejowska, the question of talent, warsaw academy of fine arts, warszawa, wydział Malarstwa, young polish artists
November 12, 2009
Do you think she’s talented? Deeply and importantly talented?
Asks Audrey Hepburn in the cult film. Same question comes to mind when you attend the painting degree show 2009. The importance of this question lies in its tone.
You can sense the works of young geniuses, however immature they still might be. Above all, they reek of [...]
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