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Polish Artist Splatters National Gallery’s Staircase With Paint And It Looks Absolutely Beautiful
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Polish Artist Splatters National Gallery’s Staircase With Paint And It Looks Absolutely Beautiful

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Zacheta, Polish National Gallery Of Art, is a place which combines modernity with history. Usually, it holds exhibitions, but painter Leon Tarasewicz used it as a canvas and transformed Zacheta itself into an actual piece of art.

He covered the gallery’s staircases with paint. However, the chaotic look can be misleading, because in reality Leon had a clear vision of what he wanted to portray and carefully planned everything to look that way. At first, he painted the steps with base colors (blue, red, and yellow) at the top. Those three paths merge in one intersection which then combines their colors and everything splatters down the main entrance, perfectly framing a remarkable Gladiator statue.

When viewed from below, this rainbow of colors contrasts with the subtle sculpture above and creates a beautiful harmony between old and new in Warsaw’s oldest museum to show contemporary art.

More info: zacheta.art.pl | artnet.com (h/t: my modern met)

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am afraid the cleaning staff got a heart attack when they discovered it.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The sides look messy. Would have been nicer if the sides had been kept clean.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was gonna say! I really wish the artist taped off the edges so there would have been clean lines between the wall and the floor.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unique harmony between the old and the new indeed...

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree, Evisa. It now makes the stairway now interesting to the young audiance - the kids will have a smile on their face as they walk up these stairs > with their interest now SPARKED, they are likely to start looking everywhere to see if anything else fancies them like the stairs just did.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

- Hey, listen. There's been a little accident. - What?? What happened? - You'd better come check it out. 10 minutes later. - Calm down. There's got be something we can about this. Enter PR.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it look nice from afar but not from up close :/

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It reminds of my past. When I was much younger, and I worked with boy scouts, I remember we had a large room, where the boys would work on various projects. Many of these projects involved using paint, so our floor looked much like the stairs in these photos.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So unique I love it people are creating so many different things nowadays I LOVE IT!!!

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Makes me wish I had stairs. Wonder how it would look on just the floor, color coordinated to the room?

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ooh you could splatter paint my wee stairs any day! Absolutely fab idea with an amazingly stunning result.

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Am I the only one who thinks the splatters are too small and have an air of trying too hard? I think it looks too messy to be beautiful, that it would look better if the paint had only dottef and splattered on the steps, not the white sides. Beautiful idea though

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"... and it looks absolutely beautiful." Um, no. it doesn't.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry it looks terrible, get him a scrapper and get busy cleaning up.

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The sides look messy. Would have been nicer if the sides had been kept clean.

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I was gonna say! I really wish the artist taped off the edges so there would have been clean lines between the wall and the floor.

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I agree, Evisa. It now makes the stairway now interesting to the young audiance - the kids will have a smile on their face as they walk up these stairs > with their interest now SPARKED, they are likely to start looking everywhere to see if anything else fancies them like the stairs just did.

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I think it look nice from afar but not from up close :/

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It reminds of my past. When I was much younger, and I worked with boy scouts, I remember we had a large room, where the boys would work on various projects. Many of these projects involved using paint, so our floor looked much like the stairs in these photos.

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Am I the only one who thinks the splatters are too small and have an air of trying too hard? I think it looks too messy to be beautiful, that it would look better if the paint had only dottef and splattered on the steps, not the white sides. Beautiful idea though

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