alt Hacker NewsSpeaking 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.
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Mucha, IMHO, is a very underrated artist. Were he born in Italy, his level of fame would be somewhere else entirely.
An interesting detail about the epic cycle - it was funded by an American millionaire who got randomly interested in Slavic history even though having no Slavic roots himself.
ha, so that's where they went. Saw them this year in Prague in Mucha's museum (1:1 replicas though...)
I think more people should see this part of his work (that is, perhaps even more than the classic Sarah Bernhardt posters, which are also wonderful).