Pisanki Day - Good Saturday with Chelmonski

 Salvete Omnes,

Peace in Ukraine- may health and joy return. Mariupol after more than a month of urban combat is but a skeletal remainder of the vibrant  pre-24th of Feburary 2022 city. Pacem Eaternam to all who have fallen in this invasion.

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Good Saturday or Easter Eve is a good day to bring back the other painting by Jozef Chelmonski - Four in Hand or Czworka from Warsaw's National Museum. Very similar to or different in some details from  the one from Krakow National Museum, it is another magnificent canvass by the master of horse foreshortening, furious action, landscape and joy of life

In 1874 Jozef Chelmonski made a trip to or escaped  from the Munich art world to the limitless skies of Ukraine. By what his contemporaries and he considered Ukraine should be explained first. For the XIX century Polish world Ukraine* constituted lands beyond Pinsk Marshes, Podolia and Volhynia, those rich soil steppes and rivers and expanses around the ancient Kijow (Kiiv/Kiev) and beyond the great river  Dniepr   into the expanses of the Pontic Steppes.  According to many contemporary sources and his own letters to friends and associates  Jozef Chelmonski loved his trips to the Ukrainian lands, for he loved the light there, and  painting  people and landscapes of the distant Ukraine gave him pleasure and enjoyment. Tadeusz Matuszczak, author of the 2003 monograph about Chelmonski, wrote that Chelmonski had an exceptional visual memory and ability to record images and action in his mind. Antoni Piotrowski, Polish painter who knew well pan Jozef , studied together under master teacher Wojciech Gerson in Warsaw, and consequently wrote his recollections about Chelmonski in 1918, stated that Chelmonski possessed extraordinary ability to record visual images and could 'arrest' images in his mind, so when he returned from his trip in Ukraine he painted various canvasses recreating impressions recorded in his mind. Hence, his galloping horses and flying horse teams  and other spirited riders and mundane cavalry columns. 

Nota bene famous Polish and American actress Helena Modrzejewska was very friendly with Wojciech Gerson's atelier, knew and enjoyed Jozef Chelmonski's brushworks and when she left for USA she took with her one of his paintings -  Return from a ball or night sleigh ride (1873). 

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enjoy your Pisanki painting day, I am about to paint some today. 

Valete

Χριστός ἀνέστη!

Salvete Omnes,
during the times of this current calamity, at least the beauty and one's Faith are always true and eternal.
Easter Sunday is here - Χριστός ἀνέστη!
Christ is risen from the dead,
Trampling down death by death,
And upon those in the tombs
Bestowing life!

Healthy, joyful and peaceful Easter Sunday  - may tour Easter family gathering be full of laughter and delicious moments.
early XVI century Epitaph of Castellan of Nowy Sącz Jan Grot ze Słupce de Konari (more information about Grot Slupecki clan at Paprocki, Hery Rycerstwa Polskiego, p.546 and Niesiecki, Herbarz Polski, vol. VIII, p 411 ), Rawicz coat of arms, currently at Krakow National Museum.

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and some beauties from the glory of European painting








Have you pained your pisanki this year?
Valete.

Good Saturday & pisanki

Salvete Omnes,
today in Polish Catholic churches, around the world, you can carry your basket with swieconka.. and get your pisanki blessed too.
Poland has its own breed of crested chicken - Czubatka - and for Easter most certainly an example of fine rooster can adorn my blog. Note that the Polish Partitions, World War II and Communist regime caused many things Polish to cease to exists.

las night I was looking at many paintings of Crucifixion and this one includes an example of an early XVI (AD 1501) century horse armor or barding. Jorg Breu the elder pinxit

and the late Italian XVI century armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

MET

a close up on curb-bit from a different set of armor from the MET

Valete

Wielkanoc Easter Christus resurrectus est

Salve,
Christus resurrectus est

Passion and Resurrection by Hans Memling

our 'pagan' Pisanki and the basket of the priest blessed 'goodies' - all our own home painted/made Pisanki (including one by my youngest )- nota bene the 'white sausage' breakfast today (with horseradish and other condiments ).

enjoy

Happy Easter & Smigus Dyngus

Salve,
 Christos Anesti "Χριστός ἀνέστη!"

happy Easter to everyone, especially to all ancient Christian communities of the Middle East, the most persecuted religious group in the world! 

I hope you have painted your 'pisanki' this year

and joyful Smigus Dyngus this Easter Monday

ps
sad news -  Pacem Aeternam to all Pakistani Christians that were murdered in Lahore, Pakistan this Eastern Sunday, I wish speedy recovery to all wounded and traumatized. 
ps'
recently passed holidays - Happy Nowruz too.. :)
and Happy Passover ..

Pisanki

Salve,
 some ideas for 'pisanki' straight from ethnographic notebooks copied from the original peasant designs by Polish XIX century pre-eminent ethnographers and folklorists- nota bene there is still time to paint some eggs  

Oskar Kolberg collection -  Dzieła wszystkie. vol. 33, Chełmskie. part  1

Zygmunt Gloger collection - Rok polski w życiu, tradycji i pieśni, 1900, p. 169, 173

Z. Wolski & T. Dowgird, Pisanki, Jaja Malowane Wielkanocne-  - from   ''Wisła, miesięcznk  geograficzno-etnograficzny z licznemi ilustracjami ''( a monthly), vol. IV 1890.

enjoy