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"At Christmas," Wojciech Weiss, before 1912.
Polish painter Weiss (1875-1950) was a prominent figure of the Young Poland movement,
The Young Poland movement was a rejection of the earlier Positivist movement, which in turn was a rejection of the Polish Romantic movement. The Polish Romantics wanted a dashing, heroic taking of independence by force. When that failed, the Positivists aimed for an incremental, gradual attempt at independence, & promoted a logic-and-reason-over-emotion approach. Young Poland, which lasted from 1890 to around WWI, brought back the Romantic ideals but also mixed them, artistically, with Impressionism, Expressionism, & even the Victorian Decadents, who viewed life very cynically.
Weiss later became a member of the Vienna Secession & was a prominent Art Nouveau designer; when Communism took over in Poland, he became a Socialist Realist, because he pretty much had to.
Whatever school this was, we have a boy sitting in the midst of colorful Christmas clutter....& he looks horribly bored and/or tired. Or maybe sulky. The style is Symbolist, or maybe Expressionist, but the depiction of boredom/fatigue/sulking in the midst of Christmas displays a touch of Decadent cynicism.
From the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.
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"At Christmas," Wojciech Weiss, before 1912.
Polish painter Weiss (1875-1950) was a prominent figure of the Young Poland movement,
The Young Poland movement was a rejection of the earlier Positivist movement, which in turn was a rejection of the Polish Romantic movement. The Polish Romantics wanted a dashing, heroic taking of independence by force. When that failed, the Positivists aimed for an incremental, gradual attempt at independence, & promoted a logic-and-reason-over-emotion approach. Young Poland, which lasted from 1890 to around WWI, brought back the Romantic ideals but also mixed them, artistically, with Impressionism, Expressionism, & even the Victorian Decadents, who viewed life very cynically.
Weiss later became a member of the Vienna Secession & was a prominent Art Nouveau designer; when Communism took over in Poland, he became a Socialist Realist, because he pretty much had to.
Whatever school this was, we have a boy sitting in the midst of colorful Christmas clutter....& he looks horribly bored and/or tired. Or maybe sulky. The style is Symbolist, or maybe Expressionist, but the depiction of boredom/fatigue/sulking in the midst of Christmas displays a touch of Decadent cynicism.
From the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.
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"At Christmas," Wojciech Weiss, before 1912.
Polish painter Weiss (1875-1950) was a prominent figure of the Young Poland movement,
The Young Poland movement was a rejection of the earlier Positivist movement, which in turn was a rejection of the Polish Romantic movement. The Polish Romantics wanted a dashing, heroic taking of independence by force. When that failed, the Positivists aimed for an incremental, gradual attempt at independence, & promoted a logic-and-reason-over-emotion approach. Young Poland, which lasted from 1890 to around WWI, brought back the Romantic ideals but also mixed them, artistically, with Impressionism, Expressionism, & even the Victorian Decadents, who viewed life very cynically.
Weiss later became a member of the Vienna Secession & was a prominent Art Nouveau designer; when Communism took over in Poland, he became a Socialist Realist, because he pretty much had to.
Whatever school this was, we have a boy sitting in the midst of colorful Christmas clutter....& he looks horribly bored and/or tired. Or maybe sulky. The style is Symbolist, or maybe Expressionist, but the depiction of boredom/fatigue/sulking in the midst of Christmas displays a touch of Decadent cynicism.
From the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.
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"At Christmas," Wojciech Weiss, before 1912.
Polish painter Weiss (1875-1950) was a prominent figure of the Young Poland movement,
The Young Poland movement was a rejection of the earlier Positivist movement, which in turn was a rejection of the Polish Romantic movement. The Polish Romantics wanted a dashing, heroic taking of independence by force. When that failed, the Positivists aimed for an incremental, gradual attempt at independence, & promoted a logic-and-reason-over-emotion approach. Young Poland, which lasted from 1890 to around WWI, brought back the Romantic ideals but also mixed them, artistically, with Impressionism, Expressionism, & even the Victorian Decadents, who viewed life very cynically.
Weiss later became a member of the Vienna Secession & was a prominent Art Nouveau designer; when Communism took over in Poland, he became a Socialist Realist, because he pretty much had to.
Whatever school this was, we have a boy sitting in the midst of colorful Christmas clutter....& he looks horribly bored and/or tired. Or maybe sulky. The style is Symbolist, or maybe Expressionist, but the depiction of boredom/fatigue/sulking in the midst of Christmas displays a touch of Decadent cynicism.
From the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.