★★★★★ "Looked lovely online but even better in person." — Orrin
★★★★★ "Arrived promptly and great quality." — Anthony
★★★★★ "Beautiful piece! Wrapped with true concern and love." — Steven
★★★★★ "So pleased — I only ordered last week." — Peter
★★★★★ "I cannot say enough on how happy I am." — Jose
★★★★★ "Thank you for being there every step of the way, Toby!" — Malavika
★★★★★ "Looked lovely online but even better in person." — Orrin
★★★★★ "Arrived promptly and great quality." — Anthony
★★★★★ "Beautiful piece! Wrapped with true concern and love." — Steven
★★★★★ "So pleased — I only ordered last week." — Peter
★★★★★ "I cannot say enough on how happy I am." — Jose
★★★★★ "Thank you for being there every step of the way, Toby!" — Malavika
★★★★★ "Looked lovely online but even better in person." — Orrin
★★★★★ "Arrived promptly and great quality." — Anthony
★★★★★ "Beautiful piece! Wrapped with true concern and love." — Steven
★★★★★ "So pleased — I only ordered last week." — Peter
★★★★★ "I cannot say enough on how happy I am." — Jose
★★★★★ "Thank you for being there every step of the way, Toby!" — Malavika

Vicious Circle - Jacek Malczewski Framed Canvas

$120USD

Inside this fevered ring, humanity rotates through invention’s furnace. Youth and age, muse and maker, sinner and saint share one endless trajectory. The painter stands apart, not free but bound to his own imagination, watching the human pageant revolve within his mind’s atmosphere.

Light strikes muscle and hair with gold-grey tension; each contour trembles between vision and flesh. Polish Romantic memory flickers through the whirl—Mickiewicz’s ghosts, patriotic yearning, unending self-interrogation.

Malczewski shapes philosophy into image: art devours its maker, history spins in repetition, desire becomes geometry of movement. The composition’s pulse feels eternal, a wheel where genius and madness are the same rotation.

Artist Biography

Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929) was the unruly visionary of Polish Symbolism, a painter who made myth, martyrdom, and memory collide on canvas. Born in Radom under Russian rule, he inherited his father’s patriotic fire and his mother’s literary grace. Trained in Kraków and Paris under Jan Matejko and Henri Lehmann, Malczewski fused national allegory with personal mysticism—turning saints, fauns, angels, and self-portraits into metaphors for Poland’s soul. His masterpieces—Melancholia, Vicious Circle, Painter’s Muse—unravel the tension between despair and transcendence. A professor and later rector of Kraków’s Academy of Fine Arts, he became the beating heart of the Young Poland movement, painting freedom through symbols.


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  • Produced in USA, UK, EU & AUS
  • Printed & shipped in 3-4 days
  • Free shipping to 60+ countries
  • Unsure? 30 day returns
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Print on Demand

Your new treasure gets produced after you purchase at print labs across the USA, UK, EU & AUS. Significantly reducing landfill waste by only making things people actually want.

Ethically Made, Climate Conscious

The international network of print labs I work with ensure your new treasure's made as close to you as possible. Significantly reducing delivery times and carbon emissions from the print lab to your front door.

Powered by Prodigi

I work with Prodigi to create all the products on my store.

All Prodigi's print lab partners around the world adhere to anti child labour and anti forced labour regulations. Providing safe and generous working environments for all staff.

The print labs also provide traceability for core raw materials from suppliers. And those suppliers are screened for compliance with fair labor and sustainability standards.

Cost

Free shipping worldwide to 60+ countries — check if we ship to you

Delivery Times

USA: 4-9 days • Canada: 5-12 days • UK: 4-9 days • Europe: 5-10 days • Australia: 4-9 days • New Zealand: 5-12 days • Rest of the world: 3-4 weeks

Why the Wait?

Delivery times include production, quality assurance & thoughtful packaging + shipping from A to B to You. More details on orders and shipping

Every package tracked so you can watch your treasure move from A to B to You.

Sent carbon neutral at no extra charge. For peace of mind your money's being kind.

30 Day Returns

1. You're welcome to open a return / exchange request within 30 days of your order's delivery. All items for return must be delivered back in their original condition, with their original packaging included.

2. No guarantees your return will be approved if you send items back to before the approval of your return request.

3. No returns, refunds or exchanges on discounted or sale items.

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Art in Motion

Print lab with multiple workstations where people are engaged in hands-on art print projects
Print lab with multiple workstations where people are engaged in hands-on art print projects

About This Treasure

• Artist-grade cotton.

• Lush, finely grained texture.

• Engineered to capture every intricate brushstroke and subtle gradient.

• Giclée printing alive multidimensional contrasts.

• Pro-lab printing helps art stay bold & breathtaking for up to 100 yr.

Framed Canvas Art

Float Framed Canvas Art

Make any room a showpiece

• Luscious artist-grade cotton canvas, finely textured for depth and precision.

• Hand-stretched and natural white to capture light/color with striking clarity.

• Printed with non-toxic, water-based pigments that stay vivid for decades.

• Precisely measured floating frame that creates a sleek, gallery-worthy effect.

• Sustainably sourced FSC® certified European knotless pine.

3 distinctive frame colors

Black: Suits every style from bold modernity to gothic opulence.

White: Helps art shine bright in dark rooms to lift your mood.

Natural: Infuses warmth with its rich, honeyed tones.

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Non-toxic Giclee Printing

Giclée Printing

Forget 4 color CMYK. Giclée layers up to 12 — alive with deeper shadows, richer highlights and multidimensional contrasts.

A Century of Color

Printed using a pro-lab process that helps art stay bold & breathtaking for up to 100 yr with non-toxic, archival-grade inks.

Water-based Inks

Neo pigment, water-based inks that are 100% non-hazardous and toxin-free. Meeting the strictest industry standards as defined by Oeko-Tex 100 safety applications, Residues Standard List (RSL) and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists.

FSC® Certified Wood

FSC® Certified Paper & Wood

Every art print and wooden frame comes from 100% FSC sources: forests managed to stay forests, with wildlife habitats protected, high-conservation areas off-limits, and no illegal logging. Trees taken are regenerated, so there’s no net forest loss. Chemicals and water use are tightly controlled, and heavy-duty audits verify it all.

For people: trained workers, safe conditions, fair pay, and respect for Indigenous and local community rights.

For you: premium art that lasts, carrying a traceable chain of custody from forest to print. No greenwashing, just independently checked materials that do less harm and support better forestry every time you buy.

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