material: oil on cardboard
dimensions: 29 × 35,5 cm
description: In 1889, having completed studies in Krakow and Munich, Ludwik de Laveaux went to Paris. Shortly afterwards he wrote to his family: "Paris is a terrible city, it is so big that you get lost in it like a fly in the air, and you must work, work hard to make it”. This is what he did,paying no heed to difficult living conditions. The studies presented here are full of expression. They reflect his painterly interest in the motif of a city in artificial lighting.A Street in Paris shows a transitory moment when it is still quite light, but daylight gradually turns into dusk, and the first street lamps have already come on. In this view of an intersection and a perspective of a street with big-city tall buildings, defined with thick, colourful streaks of paint, applied quickly, vertically or horizontally, the painter’s attention has been drawn to the lights of street lamps and shop windows – exaggerated, enhanced with reflections on the street, rendered in hot, burning colours, marking the centre of the composition. Anna Zeńczak
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: 29 × 35,5 cm
description: In 1889, having completed studies in Krakow and Munich, Ludwik de Laveaux went to Paris. Shortly afterwards he wrote to his family: "Paris is a terrible city, it is so big that you get lost in it like a fly in the air, and you must work, work hard to make it”. This is what he did,paying no heed to difficult living conditions. The studies presented here are full of expression. They reflect his painterly interest in the motif of a city in artificial lighting.A Street in Paris shows a transitory moment when it is still quite light, but daylight gradually turns into dusk, and the first street lamps have already come on. In this view of an intersection and a perspective of a street with big-city tall buildings, defined with thick, colourful streaks of paint, applied quickly, vertically or horizontally, the painter’s attention has been drawn to the lights of street lamps and shop windows – exaggerated, enhanced with reflections on the street, rendered in hot, burning colours, marking the centre of the composition. Anna Zeńczak
exposition: The Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art in Sukiennice,
The Cloth Hall, 1, Main Market Square
key: Realism, polish impressionism, beginnings of symbolism >>>