Correspondage – postcards from Wrocław. Reading the city

Beata Juchniewicz

doi:10.37190/arc190310

Abstract

The article covers the image of Wrocław in collages of photos and painterly artworks. The starting point of the considerations is the work of a Czech creator, J. Kolář, and most notably those creations that cover the architecture of Paris. The artist has created a rich collection of compositional activities, different ways of splitting and then collating paintings. Such collage is then an interesting quality of visual arts and brings in new content to the narration of the image of the architecture of the city. A similar target was given to the students of the Faculty of Architecture of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology who attend the “spaces of photography and architecture” subject. In their collages the students used photos of Wrocław and reproductions of painterly artworks. Many interesting works were made, that fitted the narration of Wrocław, its distinctive buildings and their importance in the modern image of the city.     The used technique – on the borderline between painting and photography – revealed many shades and ways of the existence of the picture in the space of the city. It connected, the real, mental, and imaginary one contributed by the artworks. It also presented how crossing the borders of arts opens new room for meaning.

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