Lecture: “Rubens, van Dyck, Jordaens – masters of Flemish Baroque”

24 April, 12:00

The lecture referred to the exhibition“Rembrandt, Rubens and Others”, on show at the ICC in 1999, and focused on the work of artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Anton van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, and Jan Davidsz de Heem.

Open, often dynamic composition, richness of colours, sensuality and affirmation of life are just some of the characteristics of Flemish Baroque painting. Artists of this period combined elements of Italian painting with native inspirations. They freely moved between different genres and subject matter. They painted religious and mythological scenes, splendid portraits, as well as sublime landscapes and sumptuous still lifes.

Lecture from the series “Decades with Art”.

Lecturer:

Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk – art historian, curator. She studied art history at the Jagiellonian University, Universität Wien, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. A graduate of the interdisciplinary programme Environment-Technology-Society (Jagiellonian University). Author of academic articles on art and architecture of the 20th century and essays in exhibition catalogues and magazines. Co-editor of the anthology “obraz/ciało” and co-editor of “Komponowanie przestrzeni. Rzeźby awangardy”. Co-author and curator of the Exercising Modernity programme (Pilecki-Institut Berlin). As part of her doctoral dissertation prepared at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University, she investigates the concept of space in the work of Katarzyna Kobro.