The exhibition is on in the Lingua Gallery, housed in the Department of Foreign Languages.
" Of all birds which most often appear in Pan Tadeusz - fifty-nine times in total, the most plentiful are geese and chickens - they come out thirteen times"[1].
Drawings of domestic fowl made by students from the workshop 207 run by prof. Wojciech Lupa and ass. tutor Jarek Grulkowskiego show a rival diversity of species and forms. Ink and brush, charcoal, crayon and pencil, as well as acylics are the techniques that students use with great ease and naturalness to render the homely beauty of fowl. In the Lingua Gallery, housed in the Department of Foreign Languages, the following students' works are presented: Hilda Hilström, Manfred Bator, Darek Guńka, Aleksandra Zaorska, Jagna Dobesz, W. Świerad, M. Karasińska
And in the Book III of Pan Tadeusz, one may find a scene which serving as a backdrop to Count's meeting with Zosia provides a literary supplement to the aforementioned exhibition:
" As soon as the cock that keeps watch stands still, and,
throwing back and holding motionless his bill, and
inclining to one side his head with its red comb, that
he may the more easily aim at the heavens with his eye,
perceives a hawk hanging beneath the clouds, he calls
the alarm : at once the hens take refuge in this garden
even the geese and peacocks, and the doves in their
sudden fright, if they have not time to hide beneath
the roof. "[2]
[1] Ornitologia Pana Tadeusza, Dariusz Tomasz Lebioda
[2] Sir Thaddeus, or the Last Lithuanian Foray: A Nobleman's Tale from the Years of 1811 and 1812 in Twelve Books of Verse, Adam Mickiewicz
