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The colourful meanders of ekphrasis: The issue of colour in the description and critical evaluation of paintings in the Polish-language Lviv press in the mid-19th century

Agnieszka Świętosławska
Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings
Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2021.28.spec.6

Abstract

The article is an attempt to analyze selected examples of critical ekphrasis. The survey examined art critical writings, published both in the daily press as well as in literary and cultural journals, from the period since 1837 (the first public exhibition in Lviv) to 1870 (the opening of the Lubomirski Museum for the public). The aim of the article was to indicate common terms, phrases and methods of describing the color structure of paintings. A separate part is devoted to the analysis of notes on the individual predispositions in terms of colors of several artists, whose artistic work was particularly often commented on in the press: Jan Piotr Łuczyński, Marcin Jabłoński, Alojzy Rejchan and Antoni Lange.

Keywords:

Lviv painting, art criticism, colours, ekphrasis, intersemiotism

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Świętosławska, A. (2021). The colourful meanders of ekphrasis: The issue of colour in the description and critical evaluation of paintings in the Polish-language Lviv press in the mid-19th century . Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings, (28), 69–84. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2021.28.spec.6

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