Marek Grechuta To Save from Oblivion - Jacek Malczewski Death of Ellenai How many roads traveled together, how many paths trodden, how many rains, how many snows, hovering over the lanterns, how many letters, how many partings, heavy hours in umpteen cities, and obstinacy to rise once more, to stride once more and reach the finale. How much of unremitting toil, common worries, common endeavours, how many loaves sliced, kisses, stairs, books, Your eyes like beautiful lights, and in the heart the source of a beam, thus I would like to save Your heart from oblivion! The coat is strung up on Your shoulders, gaudy, of the birds of forest, long throughout the entire corridor, across the courtyard stretching to Venus, and You are the inspiration and frowned highness, brilliance of water and stone, I would like Your eyes’ frown to save from oblivion. Poemat Anhelli Juliusza Słowackiego inspirował Malczewskiego przez blisko czterdzieści lat, od czasu studiów w krakowskiej SSP, aż po rok 1918, w którym Polska odzyskała niepodległość. Z treści i ducha tego utworu zrodził się cykl obrazów ukazujących zarówno losy młodego zesłańca Anhellego i Ellenai, jego towarzyszki niedoli, jak i interpretowane szerzej piekło sybirskiej katorgi. Malczewski drew inspiration from the poem Anhelli by Juliusz Słowacki for almost forty years, from the time of his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow until 1918, the year when Poland regained independence. Based on the content and mood of the poem, the artist painted a series of works portraying not only the life of a young exile called Anhelli and his companion in misery, Ellenai, but also the hell of the Siberian penal servitude in a broader sense.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:41:33 +0000
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