material: oil on canvas
dimensions: 35 × 28,5 cm
description: As far as the style and iconography are concerned, A Fisherman with a Net is one of Wyczółkowski’s most important works, painted in Ukraine in the 1880s and 1890s. In this picture, the artist has combined colour and form experiments with a portrait study of an old villain peasant, whose life depends on the generosity of nature. His serious, thoughtful face, portrayed in the glaring afternoon sunlight coming from the left, built up with energetically applied, bold brushstrokes, has been completely deprived of contours under the influence of light. Wyczółkowski painted numerous oil and pastel reproductions of this work as well as transposed it into various graphic forms. Wacława Milewska
exposition: The Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art in Sukiennice,
The Cloth Hall, 1, Main Market Square
key: Realism, polish impressionism, beginnings of symbolism >>>
dimensions: 35 × 28,5 cm
description: As far as the style and iconography are concerned, A Fisherman with a Net is one of Wyczółkowski’s most important works, painted in Ukraine in the 1880s and 1890s. In this picture, the artist has combined colour and form experiments with a portrait study of an old villain peasant, whose life depends on the generosity of nature. His serious, thoughtful face, portrayed in the glaring afternoon sunlight coming from the left, built up with energetically applied, bold brushstrokes, has been completely deprived of contours under the influence of light. Wyczółkowski painted numerous oil and pastel reproductions of this work as well as transposed it into various graphic forms. Wacława Milewska
exposition: The Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art in Sukiennice,
The Cloth Hall, 1, Main Market Square
key: Realism, polish impressionism, beginnings of symbolism >>>