Being somewhere else Print

If you want to see how the paintings are being made, follow @asiaodkasi or Joanna M Dziedzianowicz on Instagram. InstaStory updated every Wednesday. A woman is presented here in the center of the painting. On her left and right side is outlined the facial profile of a man. Tropicália. In the background are repeated silhouettes of people like the Hindu gods. The lower part of the image refers to the image Kessler "Simply America" In general Brazil is a mix of tree cultures; natives, Africans and europeans. The image of Brazilian Indians at the beginning was very primitive. Many myths were created about the Indians from Brazil. The painting is "Simply America" is from Pinacoteca in Sao Paulo. The original painting was created in year 1650 by Stefan Kessler author. represents one of the stereotypical perception of native people. This is the painting, which Leandro Neferuh has used in his installation "Demography" during the exhibition "Love and Hate to Lygia Clark" in Zacheta National Art Gallery. The painting presents stereotypes created by the European about the Brazilians. Probably the author of this painting has never been in Brazil. I conclude that because Indians on the painting are wearing shoes, pearls and their faces are recalling faces of monkeys. In the background is illustrated a scene of cannibalism. The cannibalism existed however was not a form of a regular meal. The Indians were choosing leaders, outstanding individuals to consume their bodies. Cannibalism was compared to receiving the Holy Communion in Catholic Church. The followers of Catholicism are eating the body of God in the form of a wafer in order to become a better person. In the same way Indians were eating brave people in order to gain their power and become braver. Example of this theory is an accident of cannibalism that has happened when the Portuguese boat with the representatives of the Catholic Church from Portugal has arrived to Brazil. From all of the excursion only the pontiff was eaten. His wealthy apparel and gold accessories that he was wearing, gave the Indians a suggestion that he is the most powerful and important entity from the boat. (3- Lecture Mrs. Siuda-Ambroziak ZNAG) In the lower corners of both sides I put Brazilian energetic and natural drinks called Chimarrão. It is a traditional South American caffeine-rich infused drink, particularly in Argentina (where it is defined by law as the "national infusion"[2]), Uruguay, Paraguay and Southern Brazil. It is prepared by steeping dried leaves of yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis, known in Portuguese as erva-mate) in hot water. The Guaraní people ( is an indigenous people of South America that belongs to the Tupí–Guaraní subfamily of the Tupian) started drinking mate in a region that currently includes Paraguay, southern Brazil, southeastern Bolivia, northeastern Argentina and Uruguay. The Guaraní have a legend that says the Goddesses of the Moon and the Cloud came to the Earth one day to visit it, but they instead found a yaguareté (jaguar) that was going to attack them. An old man saved them, and, in compensation, the goddesses gave the old man a new kind of plant, from which he could prepare a "drink of friendship". The idea of the painting is about artists who are working under the influence of drugs and they are able to create something meaningful. There was Polish artist Stanisław Ignacy "Witkacy" Witkiewicz. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885 - 1939), commonly known as "Witkacy", was a Polish poet, playwright, novelist, painter, photographer and philosopher. Around 1926 years Witkacy resigned completely from the oil painting. Limited to the exercise of pastel portraits in the so-called. "Companies portrait S. I. Witkiewicz". These portraits in the rules of "company" are divided into 5 types, depending on the location on the scale: naturalism - Pure Form. The latter, performed once under the influence of drugs, which Witkacy acquainted while serving in Russia, and later "sober", brought him fame. Witkacy very often in his paintings (mostly portraits) append new under the influence of what you made​​, but not only. In his paintings so you can notice such signs: FBZ - pipe without inhaling, FZZ - pipe to contracting, NP 12 - did not smoke 12 days, NΠ 3 - did not drink three days, cof. - Drank coffee, pyfko, pywo - beer. Among these signs were the names of drugs, such as. Peyote, as Witkiewicz throughout the 30s experimented with them, painting under the influence of images and writing lyrics.

Print:Giclee on Canvas

Size:16 W x 12 H x 1.25 D in

Size with Frame:17.75 W x 13.75 H x 1.25 D in

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