Wiesław OBRZYDOWSKI, Untitled

Own technique, canvas, 189 x 162 cm, signed l.d.: WO\'94 Condition for conservation ? paint chipping.

Studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under the direction of W. Taranczewski, T. Łakomski and C. Rzepinski. The artist did not fit into the canons of the avant-garde search for art of the 1960s and 1970s, his work remained in the shadow of artistic life for a long time. The situation changed in the 1980s ? after an exhibition at the National Museum of Art and at the Sopot BWA, he was recognized as a forerunner of "Polish expression" and "a continuator of the figuration of the 1950s." He painted mainly his immediate surroundings, the poor backstreets of Kazimierz, portraits of friends and family, often creating on the back of canvases and stretchers, exposing ugliness and obscenity. Currently, the artist's works are in the collections of many Polish art museums, as well as in private collections, both at home and abroad.