Tag: Teodor Axentowicz

The painter in one of his letters describes the first of the three works as follows: “ It is July 14, 1859, when the news of the peace of Villafranca came to Milan by surprise; I want to reach the impression it made in the people and not already the official act […] of workers,…

In Kolomyjka, Teodor Axentowicz’s fascination with rural traditions, which was very fashionable in his time, translates into a vivid, expressive picture in which dynamics and joyful mood are more important than realism or the traditional rules of composition. The Oberek is the second most popular Polish folk dance after the polka, and consists of a…