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"Portrait of Nena Stachurska", 1933, pastel on paper, Tatra Museum, Zakopane
"Temptation of Adam", 1920, pastel on paper, 65.5 x 48.8 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"Temptation of Saint Anthony I", 1916-21, oil on canvas, 74.5 x 90 cm, National Museum, Cracow
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"Creation of the World", 1921-22, oil on canvas, 115 x 170 cm, Museum of Art, Lodz
"Self-Portrait with a Samovar", 1917 17/2, pastel on paper, private collection
"Composition with White Figures under a Tree", 1917, pastel on paper, 46 x 66 cm, Museum of Literature, Warsaw
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"Hurys", 1918, pastel on paper, 49 x 56 cm, Museum of Literature, Warsaw
"Fox", 1918, pastel on paper, 47 x 63 cm, National Museum, Cracow
"Comet Encke", 1918, pastel on paper, 48 x 61.5 cm, private collection
[..] the Formist group whose members adapted certain features of Futurism, Cubism and Expresionism. The Formist movement was rather short-lived (1917-1922) but it had two excellent protagonists. One was Leon Chwistek [..] The second was Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz - Witkacy, the most extraordinary individuality of artistic and intellectual life in inter-war Poland, painter, theoretician of art, writer, and dramatist. As the son of Stanislaw Witkiewicz, the creator of the vernacular "Zakopane style", he grew up in artistic household and the stimulating Young Poland atmosphere of Zakopane. In 1914, he left, together with the celebrated anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, for an exotic trip to Ceylon and Australia, and then spent the October Revolution in Russia. Paintings originating from the period after his return to Poland in 1918 are airless, multi-strata compositions and perverse phantasmagoria, in which threatening monsters with animal shapes wrestle in incomprehensible strife. The forms are flat and angular, and the colour is composed of loud dissonances. In 1919, the artist proclaimed his theory of "Pure Form", the first Polish philosophically grounded theory of art. In the mid-1920s, Witkacy recognised "artistic work" to be barren, and established a one-person openly commercial Portrait Firm, which produced differently priced pastels "made to order" in accordance with the wishes of the client - "smooth" portraits as well as deformed, vibrating images executed under the impact of narcotics.
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Artist’s paintings in malarze.com
Click this link to read Witkacy's biography at Culture.pl
Artist biography at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Ignacy_Witkiewicz
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