Reading Visual Art: 245 Scissors
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Reading Visual Art: 245 Scissors
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Christmas paintings
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The Annunciation re-imagined 1850-1923
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Jacek Malczewski, Vicious Circle, 1895–97
The artist is surrounded by the naked bodies of Bacchantes; youths and elderly men. Paradoxically, they seem both real thanks to the painting's illusory visual expression and unreal because of the abstract space they occupy in the painting. The left and better-lit side of the painting symbolizes sensual ecstasy while the right, dark side represents the fears and anxiety of the artist.