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Title of Product:

Artur Grottger- inspiring conjunction of the sentimental Biedermeier and grey Romanticism

Country: Poland
Century: 1800 - The 19th Century
Topic: Artur Grottger- inspiring conjunction of the sentimental Biedermeier and grey Romanticism
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Name of Author(s): Irena Kossowska
Name of Producer: Net information source dedicted to culture: “culture.pl”
Language/s of Product: Polish
Target Group: General audience
Overall Evaluation: excellent
Availability of community:
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Objectives & Structure:
Aspects to consider:
- The Website presents the artist ‘s manners as regards technical solutions, historic references, academic consequences, etc.
- Students learn to catch up and meaningfully develop the artist’s testimony in the memorable scenes, and recognize the patterns of the upper distinctive artistic level – poetic vision and workshop as well
- The special settlement of painting within the Polish Romanticism and the national historic compounds, Historic Painting
- Possibility of recording the index of the artist’s route through the epoch, history, conveniences and the neighbourhoods of his creative settlements
Description of contents:
Artur Grottger- a Polish painter and drawer is a representative of the Late Romanticism. His workshop capacities were increased in the period of 1854- 1859 in the Vienna Academy of Art, where one of his tutors was Christian Ruben. His typology of the national historic bitter heritage’s accents found in the descriptive iconography was set forever in the memories of many Polish generations. Nothing strange then, that to much extent Grottger’s masterpieces play an essential role in reminding the national solidarity’s historic background and is decisively universal in time and reception. The cycles dedicated to the Polish insurrections, heroism and hardship were overloaded with emotions, condensed, internally ordered, harmonised within the spherical compound of the epical description and the elegy like poetics. The thematic repertoire found among Grottger’s painting joined together very substantially the esthetical requirements of academism, the romantic streams of feelings and the realistic revealing and recording of the presented events’ details. Such medleys were entailed within his historic compositions, generic scenes and portraits as well. As regards phenomena observed in the Vienna Academy of Art of that period, also Grottger used to express his tendencies towards theatre like, pathetic and celebrated patterns of the stages. In terms of illustrator’s capacities and the modelling’s rigours, Grottger’s workshop was perfect. He precisely operated with the lines, boundaries, contours and the chiaroscuro reflections. He was suggestively developing the aroma and the atmosphere by the wide scale of the grey, simultaneously recording back with an every sort possible precision the displayed costumes’ and objects’ details. The artist was spontaneously evolving his conduct in narration and his inclinations towards anecdotes through the course of his memorable illustrations included in the editions of the literature pieces, such as: “Anna of Oswiecim”, “Faust”, “Konrad Wallenrood”. He was capable of smart introducing the based generic novelty linkage between two apparent opposites: wild, grey, tensed Romanticism and sentimental, lightly harmonised Biedermeier. The formal balanced order of the composition itself was remaining in a dramatised opposition of the event’s or character’s tension, as in his romantic historic stages revealing the stress of quasi bad fate, or historic despair and destiny, sometimes the national level was painfully touched that way (as in “The Escape of Henry Walesy from Poland”).









Evaluation and Comments:
Overall Evaluation: excellent
Clarity of structure, logical sequence of contents: excellent
Usability / easiness of navigation: excellent
The website is interesting / stimulating: excellent
Educational and learning value: excellent
Quality and relevancy of content: excellent
Compatibility of the content with the target group: excellent
Suitability and quality of graphic interface: excellent
Degree and quality of interaction: excellent
Exploitation of the electronic potential: excellent
Availability and quality of simulation exercises: excellent
Quality of the evaluation tools: excellent
Possibility of printing/saving material or tests: excellent
Description of how the website can be used with the students::
- The Website presents the scopes of related observations, historical settlements, and the plots construing the artistic personality and its progressing depth.
- Students can develop the artist’s historical status within the art and national heritage as regards his prolonged testimony.

Comments::
- The Website presents the scopes of related observations, historical settlements, and the plots construing the artistic personality and its progressing depth.
- Students can develop the artist’s historical status within the art and national heritage as regards his prolonged testimony.

Evaluation Date: 01.09.2008.
Name of teacher: Antoni Woźniak
Name of School: LO number 8
Country: Poland
Subjects Taught: Fine Arts

Comments about this product


Date: 2009.09.19

Posted by G. Bayerlein, Germany

Message: ...a very interesting material. ...possible to be compared with German Romanticism.

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