The Nude in Nineteenth-Century Painting versus Photography and Pornography. The Case of Pantaleon Szyndler

• Authors: Wójcik Agata

Title variants

PL

Akt w malarstwie XIX wieku a fotografia i pornografia. Przypadek Pantaleona Szyndlera

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The article introduces the oriental theme in the work of Pantaleon Szyndler, a slightly forgotten Polish painter from the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. He was trained at art schools in Warsaw, Munich, Rome and Paris. Oriental themes had appeared in his work since 1872, culminating in the 1880s and 1890s. Szyndler painted scenes with nudes in oriental stylisation - usually oriental beauties resting in the tranquillity of seraglio. He successfully presented these works at the Parisian Salon and on exhibitions in Warsaw. His works won acclaim of critics, were often reproduced in newspapers and found numerous buyers. The painter did not have a first-hand knowledge of the Orient and apparently used a few types of photographs as sources of inspiration Mr his paintings: anthropological, which showed exotic women; pornographic, representing European models in oriental stylisation; and photographs depicting oriental' dancers.

• Publisher: Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Institute of History of Art
• Journal: Modus. Prace z historii sztuki
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 15
• Pages: 235-246

Contributors

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Wójcik Agata

• UP Kraków