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- The Crucifixion – A Painting of Gigantic Proportions
- The Inspiration Behind Styka’S Painting
- The Sad Destiny of The Painting
- The Pilgrimage of The Crucifixion
- Visiting The Beautiful Resting Place of The Crucifixion
The Crucifixion was the masterpiece of Polish painter Jan Styka. What will first strike you when you see this painting is its unusually big size, measuring 195′ in length and 45′ in hight. That is about the width of a four-lane highway! Styka’s panoramic crucifixion depicts the distressing moment just before Christ’s martyrdom. It is a powerful ima...
A remarkable story surrounds this huge painting. Jan Styka was close friends with Ignace Paderewski, a noted musician, statesman, and Premier of Poland. One day Paderewski told him he had an interesting dream about Christ’s execution. Styka felt very inspired by Paderewski’s dream and offered to paint what is considered to be the largest religious ...
In 1904 Styka had a new opportunity to display his work when he received an invitation at the St. Louis World’s Fair, in Missouri. Therefore, he loaded The Crucifixionand some of his other paintings on a boat and came to America. Styka came full of hope, but he had never foreseen the tragic chain of events that would make him loose his major work. ...
The Crucifixion remained lost for 40 years, until 1944 when Dr. Hubert Eaton – the founder of the Forest Lawn Cemetery – heard about its existence. Intrigued by the story, Eaton began a lengthy search in an attempt to recover it. But The Crucifixionwasn’t easy to find. During its 40 years of pilgrimage, the painting changed hands many times. Eventu...
Styka’s masterpiece is one of the hidden gems of Southern Californiaand is now displayed in the The Hall of Crucifixion and the Resurrection, a 900 seat auditorium. The presentation of the painting is in the form of a documentary, with commentaries and specifically composed background music. The presentation starts in complete darkness with the his...
Dec 27, 2018 · Robert Indiana (1928–2018) Robert Indiana. LOVE (Red/Violet), 1966-1999. Kasmin. As the subtitle of his 2013–14 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art —“Beyond LOVE”—made clear, Robert Indiana ’s career came to be defined by the prints and sculptures he first created in the 1960s, with the distinctively stacked ...
Oct 31, 2017 · China Adams, Official Cannibal Status, 1993. Courtesy of the artist and Porch Gallery Ojai. Adams first made a splash (or rather a crunch) in the art world while still an undergrad at the University of California, Los Angeles. For her transactional-cannibalistic performance Official Cannibal Status (1993), she had a surgeon remove a tiny bit of ...
Personal life. Gintberg is the youngest of four siblings, with two sisters and one brother. Despite a lot of joking about marriage, Gintberg married his longtime girlfriend Nina Sepstrup. They have two children, Eline (b. 1997), and August (b. 2004). Eline was born with Down syndrome. They currently live in Søborg, in Northern Zealand of Denmark.
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