Kolejka trwa
Kolejka trwa
External web link
- Kolejka trwa , europeana.eu.
Kolejka trwa (German: The queue continues ) is a painting by the Polish painter Andrzej Wróblewski from 1956. The 140 centimeter high and 200 centimeter wide oil on canvas painting shows a row of chairs with people sitting in a waiting room. It is a figurative picture that is in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw .
The subject of the painting is a waiting room scene. In the middle distance is a row of chairs with people waiting from left to right. While only the legs of the seated person on the left and only the shoulder part on the right, the figures on the three central chairs are shown in their entirety. In the first fully visible chair from the left is a mother holding her child on her lap. An elderly man sits in the middle chair with his hands on a walking stick. The right chair is occupied by an older woman in a hunched position. The figures take up the picture space almost in full height. The alignment of the queue in connection with the arrow on the door in the background gives the rather static painting a little movement. The colors are reduced and strong, for example in the case of the pink wall in the background or the turquoise of the armrest of the middle chair.
The artist Andrzej Wróblewski died a year after completing the painting at the age of only 30 in an accident during a mountain hike in the Carpathian Mountains. He is considered one of the most important representatives of figurative painting in Poland. Kolejka trwa with the relatively flat pictorial space and the intense color surfaces is characteristic of his work. Kolejka trwa was acquired by the Warsaw National Museum in 1960.
Web links
- Information about the painting Kolejka trwa on europeana.eu.
- Data sheet for Kolejka trwa on cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl.