Educational events "Art of the North" referring to Norwegian art, organized by the National Museum in Warsaw, combined with the promotion of the EEA and Norway Grants
In connection with the situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the National Focal Point for the EEA and Norway Grants transferred some of the planned promotional activities to the Internet, participating in the #stayinhome campaign.
Such initiatives include on-line educational events devoted to Norwegian themes in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, during which, among others, graphics by Edvard Munch or the landscape of Kazimierz Stabrowski's "Norwegian Fjord" were presented.
ON-LINE LECTURE (PODCAST) for adults called "Nordic trails" as part of the MUSEUM TUESDAYS ON-LINE block
Norwegian and Icelandic art are little known in Poland. And yet there are connections between the art of these countries and the Polish one. You can recreate a network of contacts between Polish and Nordic artists and even find mutual inspiration in their work. In addition, in the collections of Polish museums, we can find objects representing the art of the Nordic circle. Looking at the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, we looked for Nordic inspirations in Polish painting, as well as objects from the far North.
September 8, 2020 at 1 pm there was a 30-minute lecture by Emiliana Konopka entitled "Nordic Trials". The podcast was accompanied by a slide presentation and a quiz related to the topic of the lecture.
Presentation
Museum Tuesdays – Nordic trails (PDF)
Quiz
ONLINE MEETING WITH CURATORS OF the National Museum in Warsaw entitled "Norway in the graphic collection: Erik Dahlbergh's theatrum of war and Edvard Munch's soul scream" as part of the MUSEUM SECRETS block
The presentation of the works of two Scandinavian artists from the extensive collection of the Cabinet of Contemporary Figures and Drawings of the National Museum in Warsaw was an opportunity to talk about the difficult modern history of Norway and the graphic war chronicle of the mid-17th century military engineer and cartographer Erik Dahlbergh, as well as the extremely personal, intimate work of the Norwegian artist from the turn of the 19th/20th century, Edvard Munch, co-creator of the foundations of the world modern art.
A 60-minute meeting with curators Ewa Frąckowiak and Marcin Romeyko-Hurko, in the form of a live broadcast on Facebook, took place on September 9, 2020 at 6.00 pm. It gave the participants the opportunity to see valuable works on paper, which are for conservation reasons not presented on a daily basis in the warehouse interiors of the Museum's studio collections. The transmission lasted ca. 40 minutes, the conversation about the works of art was combined with the possibility of Internet users asking questions.
Photo: Marek Płuciniczak
FAMILY ON-LINE WORKSHOP "Beauty of the North"
The dream of many artists was to create an atmospheric landscape, that would move the emotions of the recipient and attract his attention for longer. More than once, in search of beautiful views, they traveled to distant countries. Painters were attracted to the sun-drenched regions of the south, as well as to the mystery, melancholy, and monumentalism of northern landscapes. Kazimierz Stabrowski went to open-air locations in Norway, where, among others, a view of the rocky fjord was made.
On September 12-13, 2020 (Saturday and Sunday), at 12.00, two 60-minute workshops were held for families with children aged 5-12, led by Zofia Załęska.
Photos from the workshops
Presentation from the workshops