03 — ARTWORK
The Old City Market, Warsaw, at Night
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm
- TYPE
- Landscape
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- FILE
- 1000 × 1313 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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In 1889, W³adys³aw Podkowiñski and Józef Pankiewicz of the Warsaw College of Art visited Paris for the World Fair. There they encountered ImpressionismA style of painting that became prominent in the last quarter of the 19th century as a reaction to the ossified doctrine of the Academy and the content-oriented atelier, historical, and genre painting. The name is derived from the 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet, and first was used by art critics as a mocking description for a group of artists excluded from the official Salon, but who had their own first group exhibition in 1874 at the salon of the Parisian photographer Nadar. Impressionism, as a new type of naturalism, negated classical pictorial methods; based on contemporary theories of physics, it indicated the natural object in a revolutionary fashion - entirely as a manifestation of colour. Their supreme principle was "plein-air" or open-air painting, through which the painters tried to capture a direct, spontaneous impression of what they saw., and, through Theo van Gogh, the paintings of Cézanne. The exposition of their own work in Warsaw in 1890 signaled the beginning of Impressionism there.
Pankiewicz combined Impressionist and various Post-Impressionist approaches. In the 1890s he brought an equal intensity to sunlight and nighttime scenes with the light of city streetlamps.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {The Old City Market, Warsaw, at Night by PANKIEWICZ, Józef},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pankiewicz-jzef-r9789eef1d79431/the-old-city-market-warsaw-at-night-r84db62c2e796b9},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
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}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
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