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Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka's Reverse Paintings (Ca. 1920s)
Overlooked kaleidoscopic images of nature painted directly onto glass.
These paintings could be produced quickly and cheaply, and “had the added attraction of reflecting the scant light in the dark rooms of the peasant homes”, writes scholar Phyllis Granoff. Artists like Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) and Rebecca Salsbury James (1891–1968) expanded on the traditional themes (flowers, still life, birds) and pushed reverse painting in novel directions: new color palettes, new approaches to line and space, new abstractions. It is also unclear if she faced the same gendered critique: the critic Paul Rosenfeld, argues Wurzelbacher, “cast Hartley’s ‘canvases and rectangles of glass’ as effeminate”, comparing them to “some sweet bit of handiwork .
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