CYPRYS JAKO REPREZENTANT I REPREZENTACJA. PROWANSALSKIE OBRAZY VINCENTA VAN GOGHA W WIERSZACH WSPÓŁCZESNYCH POETÓW POLSKICH
CYPRESS AS A REPRESENTATIVE AND A REPRESENTATION VINCENT VAN GOGH'S PROVENÇAL PAINTINGS IN THE POEMS OF CONTEMPORARY POLISH POETS

Summary/Abstract: Vincent van Gogh's painting has been subject of studies by art and literary historians, culture experts, and conservators. Literature, and especially poetry, is a separate field permeated by the iconosphere of the Dutch artist. The paper presents the meaning of the cypress motif in van Gogh's Provençal creativity, in the letters to his brother Theo, and the mode of elucidating the elements of Provençal expanse by contemporary Polish poets, inter alia, by Dariusz Bugalski, Mieczysław Dziaczek, Krzysztof Gąsiorowski, Tadeusz Różewicz, Włodzimierz Słobodnik, and Jerzy Wojciechowski. The cypress, which for the painter was most significant representative of Southern France, in the poems by Polish poets gains a new interpretation: identified with the figure of van Gogh, it becomes a representation of the painter himself.

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