material: oil on canvas
dimensions: 76 × 200 cm
description: The invitation to Nesvizh in 1866 became a turning point in Julian Fałat’s career. It was then that he developed an interest for hunting subjects. When reconstructing the appearance of the landscape, people and animals based on plein-air sketches, the artist consistently followed the forms of the visible world. At the same time, by adopting some features of Impressionism, he lightened up his palette, used the composition suggesting randomness, a sketchy, hasty technique and value modelling. Elk-Hunting, painted in 1894, is a landscape in which the human presence has been reduced to a minimum. The panoramic view emphasizes the vastness of the scene as well as the beauty and wildness of the marshy landscape. The figures of a huge elk, at one end of the composition, and a small hunter, at the other one, almost completely blend in with the background of marshes enveloped in mist. Painted with sketchy brushstrokes, the work is rendered in a dull, blue-grey tonality relieved by the glow of the rising sun. Aleksandra Krypczyk
exposition: The Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art in Sukiennice,
The Cloth Hall, 1, Main Market Square
key: Realism, polish impressionism, beginnings of symbolism >>>
dimensions: 76 × 200 cm
description: The invitation to Nesvizh in 1866 became a turning point in Julian Fałat’s career. It was then that he developed an interest for hunting subjects. When reconstructing the appearance of the landscape, people and animals based on plein-air sketches, the artist consistently followed the forms of the visible world. At the same time, by adopting some features of Impressionism, he lightened up his palette, used the composition suggesting randomness, a sketchy, hasty technique and value modelling. Elk-Hunting, painted in 1894, is a landscape in which the human presence has been reduced to a minimum. The panoramic view emphasizes the vastness of the scene as well as the beauty and wildness of the marshy landscape. The figures of a huge elk, at one end of the composition, and a small hunter, at the other one, almost completely blend in with the background of marshes enveloped in mist. Painted with sketchy brushstrokes, the work is rendered in a dull, blue-grey tonality relieved by the glow of the rising sun. Aleksandra Krypczyk
exposition: The Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art in Sukiennice,
The Cloth Hall, 1, Main Market Square
key: Realism, polish impressionism, beginnings of symbolism >>>