The Dark Arts: Aleksandra Waliszewska and Symbolism Gingeras Alison M.
A look at the dark, symbolic work of Polish painter Aleksandra Waliszewska alongside historical artworks that influence her.Painter Aleksandra Waliszewska creates densely narrative, art historically…
Specifikacia The Dark Arts: Aleksandra Waliszewska and Symbolism Gingeras Alison M.
A look at the dark, symbolic work of Polish painter Aleksandra Waliszewska alongside historical artworks that influence her.Painter Aleksandra Waliszewska creates densely narrative, art historically saturated oil and gouache paintings. Waliszewska's pictorial universe is populated by supernatural characters and dark themes: devils, vampires, satanic creatures, possessed girls, apocalyptic scenes, bloodthirsty zombies, and other incarnations of the living dead. These characters are situated in dystopian urban landscapes, lost highways, deserted suburbs, gloomy housing estates, swamps, and other sites associated with the Eastern European landscape. Drawing from the specifically Slavic histories of the Upir (the living dead), Waliszewska claims her artistic and conceptual descendance from premodern art and Symbolist works of the late 19th and early 20th century from Nordic,
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