A new portrait of Nawojka for the upcoming exhibition

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Hello, dear Hivers 🌸

Today I wanted to share with you a piece I finished this day. Although, I may add some final touches later on.
There's a portrait of Nawojka - the first Polish female student at Jagiellonian University. It is said, that she started her higher education at the beginning of the 15 century. Women were forbidden at that time at universities, so she had to dress as a man to attend classes at the liberal arts faculty.
This portrait is one of a couple of other pieces that I'll be creating for the upcoming exhibition at our museum. The collection is dedicated to women at Jagiellonian University - first students, first doctoral, lecturers, and so many more, who actually created a path, that fellow women are following. It is an important voice in academic disputes, as that situation started to change out hundred years ago.

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It started out with the conception - a young girl aspires to mean something in a science world, portrayed in front of the oldest, medieval building of Collegium Maius, surrounded by astronomical objects such as astrolabes and a globe with a sky map. She has a short, black, slightly curled hair and green eyes (green, pink and beige are one of the colours of the exhibitions scenography).

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Then, I changed the idea a bit - she’s not to sos shy anymore, rather confident and charismatic. I choose pink as the under colour of paper, too. Pink for years was the colour of a masculinity, it changed after WWII.

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A portrait of a true help and the first critic - Arya.

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I softened her features in the portrait, to create her more girly, as she was about 13-14 when she started higher education.

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Here’s first layer of pastel on her face.

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The artists process.

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And the final result. After some debates at work I decided to sty with pastels, as it’s one of my favourite techniques of painting, light, delicate and vivid.
She’s also surrounded by mallows - flowers that symbolises womanhood and healing.

Witajcie 🌸

Dzisiaj chcę podzielić się z wami kawałkiem, który skończyłam tego dnia. Chociaż później mogę dodać kilka ostatnich poprawek.
Jest to portret Nawojki - pierwszej polskiej studentki na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim. Mówi się, że swoją edukację rozpoczęła na początku XV wieku. W tamtych czasach kobiety nie mogły uczęszczać na uniwersytety, więc musiała ubierać się jak mężczyzna, aby uczęszczać na zajęcia na wydziale sztuk wyzwolonych.
Ten portret jest jednym z kilku innych, które stworzę na nadchodzącą wystawę w naszym muzeum. Kolekcja poświęcona jest kobietom na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim - pierwszym studentkom, pierwszym doktorantkom, wykładowczyniom i wielu innym, które faktycznie stworzyły ścieżkę, którą podążają inne kobiety. To ważny głos w akademickich sporach, bo sytuacja zaczęła się zmieniać sto lat temu. Zaczęło się od konceptu - młoda dziewczyna aspirująca do znaczenia w świecie nauki, sportretowana przed najstarszym, średniowiecznym budynkiem Collegium Maius, w otoczeniu astronomicznych przedmiotów, takich jak astrolabia i globus z mapą nieba. Ma krótkie, czarne, lekko kręcone włosy i zielone oczy (zieleń, róż i beż to jeden z kolorów scenografii wystawy). I efekt końcowy. Po kilku debatach w pracy zdecydowałam się na pastele, ponieważ jest to jedna z moich ulubionych technik malarskich, lekka, delikatna i żywa.
Jest również otoczona malwami - kwiatami, które symbolizują kobiecość i uzdrowienie.



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