Król-Duch Juliusza Słowackiego w pastelach Tymona Niesiołowskiego

Abstract

Tymon Niesiołowski – Polish painter and graphic artist, representative of the new Classicist trend in the 1920s – created in 1909 six pastel cartoons inspired by the Juliusz Słowacki poem King-Spirit. Today we know only two images: Król Duch and Złotogłów. The pastel Safona (1913) is closely connected to them. The paintings arise from the Art Nouveau, characterised by linearism, decorative and dynamic presentation. Niesiołowski expressed the synthesis of the inspiration by Wyspiański works, the mystical poem King-Spirit and also the nature of 19th-century art. The pastel works point to the moment of artistic exploration, the formation of an individual creative path in art.