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W szkicu, odwołując się do Wyrwanych stron, poruszam problem „zmagania się ze sobą” Józefa Czapskiego. Owe zmagania to również opis poszukiwania przez pisarza Absolutu i prawdy. Czapski w swych poszukiwaniach przechodzi długą i niełatwą intelektualną drogę. To nade wszystko w dzienniku artysta jawi nam się najbardziej autentyczny. Nie ma jednowymiarowości istnienia i ten problem – za refleksją Czapskiego...
There is a great power in works of art. Art provides knowledge about human experience, which is not available in another way. Art gives answers to the most important and eternal questions about humanity, even though these answers are never final. Sometimes it happens that works of some artists encourage or provoke a reaction of other artists. Thanks to this in history of culture - across borders of...
To handle physical, mental or existential pain, man resorts to medicine, psychology, religion, philosophy ... This issue has also been discussed by writers and painters of all epochs. Artists have the advantage though - using the language of art, they can reach the truth about human life which cannot be accessed in a different way. The departure point for the deliberations about suffering and the...
The article explores Herman Melville’s use of allegory in the critique of American expansionism in his novel Pierre. Allegorical structures encoded in this text are identified through references to Thomas Cole’s cycle of manifestly allegorical paintings entitled The Course of Empire. Melville’s novel and Cole’s pictures reveal meaningful similarities. The writer and the painter both use spatial and...
Unlike other famous Romantics, William Blake does not glorify Satan as an embodiment of such concepts as liberty, independence and freethinking. In the following article an attempt will be made to see how in Blake’s poetry and painting the figure of Satan becomes associated with rationalism and the notion of misguided creativity. In this aspect Satan is consistently identified with Urizen, Blake’s...
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