Tuesday 12 April 2016

"History Lesson in Pictures"

"There are no innocent. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility."
Stieg Larsson, "The Girl Who Played With Fire"



At the end of the last year I got a quite noble task, namely preparing a series of illustrations related with the Baptism of Poland (2016 is the 1050th anniversary of this event). The National Centre for Culture (NCK) gave me a great deal of freedom regarding technique and subjects, with only one stipulation: "no controversial themes". When the condition "no controversial themes" was repeated for the third time during the preliminary talks, I began to ponder about what so controversial could appear there... but haven't come up with anything brilliant.



Anyway, here are some of these works. Ready for a short history lesson? Here we go!

"Unification of Tribes" - one of the main consequences of Christening of Poland was unifying few tribes and creating one land with one sovereign.

"Old Beliefs" - that's the sad one actually. Statues of ancient gods were being destroyed on a massive scale and most Slavic beliefs gone irrecoverably, as they weren't written down.

"Writing" -  Writing came to Poland along with Christian monks. Finally!


"Architecture and Art" - here on the example of St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków.

4 comments:

  1. Może mieli na myśli to, że żadnego chrztu Polski nie było...?

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    1. Wikipedia mówi, że był, więc nie śmiem się sprzeciwiać ;)

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  2. Your drawings are so beautiful ! I am particularly attracted by "Writing". I like the light and all the details of the drawing. ;)

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    1. Thank you! "Writing" is also my personal favorite from this series :)

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