Slavdom Unearthed: Marian Wawrzeniecki's Neopagan Paintings (1891–1923)

There is something redolent of Ralph Bakshi's work in many of these images.

I don’t know who votes these things up, but I am glad they do. Can we have a new x_HN, with all the things with potential to open your mind in unspecified ways?

If you enjoy this, you might also like he work of Stanisław Szukalski, a historically problematic but talented/eccentric painter and sculptor who pursued neo-pagan slavic (slav-adjacent?) themes.

https://www.szukalski.com/

Speaking of Slavic paintings, I've had the chance to see Alphonse Mucha's Slav Epic [0] (which, for complicated reasons, is being displayed in some random village somewhere in Czechia) and it was maybe the most impressive art display I've ever had the pleasure of seeing.

The sheer scale (the paintings are like 8 x 6m each!) and detail is unlike anything I've seen before, it really has to be experienced in person. I'd highly recommend making the trip to Moravský Krumlov if you're ever in that part of the world!

You might know Mucha from his Art Nouveau posters, but this Epic was what he considered his magnum opus and spent eighteen years of his life on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slav_Epic

He always painted the same scene in different ways. That's absence of talent.

When I realize that still 30 years ago Slavs in Balkans were genociding each other, and at this moment two Slavic groups are viciously fighting each other while non-Slavs don't even notice a difference between them, I doubt this heritage and culture are worthy of cultivating or praising.