alt Hacker NewsSlavdom Unearthed: Marian Wawrzeniecki's Neopagan Paintings (1891–1923)
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He always painted the same scene in different ways. That's absence of talent.
Speaking of Slavic paintings, I've had the chance to see Alphonse Mucha's Slav Epic [0] (which, for complicated reasons, is being displayed in some random village somewhere in Czechia) and it was maybe the most impressive art display I've ever had the pleasure of seeing.
The sheer scale (the paintings are like 8 x 6m each!) and detail is unlike anything I've seen before, it really has to be experienced in person. I'd highly recommend making the trip to Moravský Krumlov if you're ever in that part of the world!
You might know Mucha from his Art Nouveau posters, but this Epic was what he considered his magnum opus and spent eighteen years of his life on.
If you enjoy this, you might also like he work of Stanisław Szukalski, a historically problematic but talented/eccentric painter and sculptor who pursued neo-pagan slavic (slav-adjacent?) themes.
https://www.szukalski.com/