Funeral of Juliusz Słowacki

Thanks to me, the casket with the corpse of Słowacki was resting in the Barbican overnight. There was supposed to be only one service in St. Mary’s Church. Later, a procession was supposed to head to Wawel. Lovely experiences, but accompanied by unpleasant stress, since I was afraid of the storm, which could tear off the veil. It was drizzling at night, followed by a heavy rain. Piłsudski was speaking to officers in Wawel. The committee comprised Sieroszewski, Żeromski, chaired by Badeni, Cardinal Puzyna resisted; Żeromski suggested the grave of Słowacki on Lake Czarny Staw… I was already thinking about the Barbican and a parade in front of the casket. I was welcoming delegations from Vilnius with the soil from his mother’s grave in Kremenets. Cypresses with roses, and the light glowing from the gallery. Mass celebrated in the gallery. Singing…

Wyczółkowski to Pieniążek: If I were younger, I would establish an association of graphic artists, painters and researchers, whom I would send across the country to visit Poland, to illustrate and paint the beauty of Poland. To collect motifs and later process them. When you get old, you come up with things that should be done in the beginning. The Vistula looks like a Japanese panorama, with homes, forests, mountains, and valleys. Compositions from the Vistula: The Funeral of Słowacki. On the ship. Later, from a motorboat, making sure that the Vistula does not look like the Volga River. First, I was drawing and later I was deciding about color. I mean the purple, in order to maintain consistency. Golden embroidery. My concept in the Barbican. There is a casket. Rainbow. After working through the studies, it will be easy, wreaths on railings with ribbons look busy … amaranth is still missing from the embroidery; later, the wreaths and banners will look better. In Gdynia, I painted the “Mickiewicz” Ship from nature. Director Rómmel looking at this composition with tapestries and the rainbow, instead of helping me with the ship, argues about it from the professional point of view: the “Mickiewicz” paddle-steamship would not be able to sail on the since, it would have sunk. He reproaches me for my lack of knowledge about sea ships. I depend on nature and cannot create without nature. Nature is different than symbolical treatment in arts, or in The Funeral of Słowacki, on covers with the rainbow, mast and ensign, or a pine tree with a beehive, and crosses on little graves. Self-portrait – like a polar bear against the Vistula – rafts are floated, and the artist remains tired.