Published: 2022-12-30

Not topography but the state of the soul, i.e., the psychization of the landscape in the works of Ivan Trusz (1869-1941)

Beata Lewińska
Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings
Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2022.29.2.19

Abstract

The artistic creation of Ivan Trusz, a Ukrainian painter educated at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, has been an object of interest in Poland due to its specific nature whose sources can be found in the influence of the artist’s studies under Leon Wyczółkowski and Jan Stanisławski. Landscape was the dominant genre in the works of Trusz who painted the vast Ukrainian steppes and fields, landscapes form his homeland and artistic peregrinations. However, little attention was paid to the symbolic and neo-romantic character of these paintings, which were not painted in direct contact with nature, but in the studio. They reflected the spirit of nature and the state of the artist’s soul, so we deal here with the psychization of the landscape whose sources can be traced back to modernism.

Keywords:

Trusz, landscape, symbolism, landscape psychization, expressionism

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Lewińska, B. (2022). Not topography but the state of the soul, i.e., the psychization of the landscape in the works of Ivan Trusz (1869-1941). Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings, 29(2), 255–266. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2022.29.2.19

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