Gallery - National Museum in Krakow

I visited the National Museum in Krakow (Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie) in Poland. The exhibition housed a number of diverse contemporary artists. I was specifically drawn to the works of Eric Fischl, David Lachappelle and Nobuyoshi Araki which I found related to my project directly looking at the body. These artists all look closely at the human figure presenting dramatic and emotive narratives which captured my attention.

Eric Fischl





New York Times, "[Degas] sets up a charged situation with his incomparable subtlety of insight and characterization, and then he goes away and leaves us to figure it out as best we can. That is the tactic of Fischl, too, though the society with which he deals has an unstructured brutality and a violence never far from release that are very different from the nicely calibrated cruelties that Degas recorded." (http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/21/arts/art-at-the-whitney-28-eric-fischl-paintings.html).


David Lachappelle




Nobuyoshi Araki