The Tradition, Actualization and Portrayal of the Passion of the Savior: Andrzej Bielawski’s Way of the Cross for the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Buraków

Kamil KOPANIA

Zakład Historii Sztuki i Kultury Dawnej, Instytut Historii Sztuki, Wydział Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland , Poland


Abstract

The article is focused on an analysis of The Way of the Cross (1984), a drypoint by Andrzej Bielawski, commissioned by the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Buraków, near Warsaw. The author argues that the artist, using the traditional sequence of scenes established in the iconography of the Passion, succeeded in producing modern (for the 1980’s) and simultaneously timeless a vision of the Passion of Christ, free from exaggerated symbolism and obvious metaphors. Furthermore, while working on the cycle of the Passion of the Lord, Bielawski made interesting and creative references to old art, in particular to the ways in which medieval artists portrayed the sufferings of the Savior.

Translated by Dorota Chabrajska

Keywords:

Andrzej Bielawski, Way of the Cross, the Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ, art of the 1980’s




KOPANIA, K. (2020). Tradycja, aktualizacja i obrazowanie męki Zbawiciela. Andrzeja Bielawskiego Droga krzyżowa dla zgromadzenia sióstr niepokalanek z Burakowa. Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL, 27(2 (106). https://doi.org/10.12887/27-2014-2-106-23

Kamil KOPANIA 
Zakład Historii Sztuki i Kultury Dawnej, Instytut Historii Sztuki, Wydział Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland