Transcript A Few Remarks on Poland*s Contribution to the European

A Few Remarks on Poland’s
Contribution to the European
Culture
For last two hundred years,Poland became
famous in Europe in diffrent fields e.g. art,
music and architecture.
Fryderyk Chopin
The greatest Polish composer and pianist. This worldwide known
composer was only eight when he gave a good piano concert. At
the age of 20 he moved to Paris where he stayed till the end of his
life.
Ostrogski Palace – seat
of the Chopin Society and
it contains a small Chopin
Museum
The Chopin
Monuments
Père Lachaise
cemetery in Paris,
France.
The International Chopin Piano Competition is a piano
competition held in Warsaw, Poland. It was initiated in
1927 and has been held every five years since 1955. It is
one of few competitions devoted entirely to the works of a
single composer.
He composed a lot of music. He wrote Mazurkas and
Polonaises. They are included to our National Dances.
The other three dances are Kujawiak, Oberek and
Krakowiak.
Mazurkas
Polonaise
Kujawiak
Oberek
Krakowiak
Other
famous
musicians
Krzysztof Penderecki
Henryk Górecki
Witold Lutosławski
Film Music
Wojciech Kilar – the
Zbigniew Preisner – the
author of : Dracula, The
Pianist, The Portrait of
Lady .
author of : When the Man Loves
Woman, The Secret Garden, The
Double Life of Veronique.
Krzysztof Komeda
He was among the pioneers
of the Polish jazz scene and
one of the most original
composers of film music.
Komeda’s album Astigmatic
is widely regarded as one of
the most important European
jazz albums.
Jan Kaczmarek
Nowdays, the musical ornamentation
of many well- known films is provided
by him. In 2005 he received the
Oscar Academy Award for Best
Original Score for Finding Neverland.
Andrzej Wajda
Polish film and theater director.
Four films by Andrzej Wajda (The Promised Land, The Maids of Wilko,
Man of Iron, and Katyn) where nominated for an Oscar for best foreign
language film.
In 2000, Wajda received an honorary Oscar from the American Film
Academy.
In 1981, Man of Iron won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Roman Polański
His words :
I want people to walk to the
cinema. I am a man of a
show. I play.
I have always believed that
man is basically good. If it
were otherwise our species
would have expired long time
ago.
Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor.
Having made films in Poland, the United Kingdom, France
and the United States, he is considered one of the few
”truly international filmmakers”.
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Polish film director and screenwriter.
He began his career as a director
specializing in documentaries, but over
time became involved in the
implementation of feature films.
Occasionally he also undertook
theatrical activities. He is known
internationally for The Decalogue
(1989), The Double Life of Véronique
(1991), and The Three Colors Trilogy
(1993–1994).
Janusz Kamiński
He is a Polish cinematographer and
film director who started his career
in the United States. He rose to
fame in the 1990s following
Schindler's List (1993). Since then,
he has photographed all of Steven
Spielberg's films. He won the
Academy Award for his
cinematography of Schindler's List
and Saving Private Ryan (1999). In
recent years, Kamiński has also
moved into the field of directing.
Izabella Scorupco
Polish actress and model.She was born in
1970.She is the best known and recognised
as one of Bond’s girls in „GoldenEye”.
In Poland her big part was in Jerzy Hoffman’s
production
„With Fire and Sword”.
Jan Matejko – Polish
painter
Jan Matejko is one of the greatest Polish painters. He
studied art in Cracow, later in Germany and Austria.
Matejko travelled to many foreign countries . In total he
painted about 200 paintings. Most of them refer to
Polish history. One of his best known paintings is „The
battle of Grunwald”
Jan Matejko
Jan Matejko’s Paintings
„the battle of Grunwald”
„Stańczyk”
„The 3rd May Constitution”
Zbigniew Libera
He is one of the most interesting Polish artist. His worksphotographs, video films, objects, drawings, play with the
stereotypes of contemporary culture. Libera has decoted
himself to analyzing the media and the significance to
the image in mass culture, creating controversial works
including the Lego Concentration camp, a model of a
Nazi prison made from the toy blocks.
Robert Konieczny
A graduate of the architecture faculty; certified by New
Jersey Institute of Technology. His project- The broken
House has been acknowledged as one of the icons of
Polish architecture and was nominated to European
Award in 2002. In 2007 his project won a gold medal of
the young Architects Contest ”Leonardo 2007”.
Konieczny was also numbered among 44 world’s best
young architects.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Polish artist best known for her textile sculptures of
biomorphic. She studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine
Arts. Abakanowicz has received numerous awards,
including the Grand Prix of the Sao Paulo and Award by
the International Sculpture Center in New York. Her work
has been exhibited at the Museo National Centro in
Madrid, in New York in the Metropolitian Museum of Art.
Summarizing, all nations contributed to the
rich European culture; the priceless traditions
have been built up for centuries. They must
not be understimated, especially in the era of
cultural globalisation and the promotion of
mass culture.