Jan Chwałczyk (1924-2018), untitled, painting by adhesion method on paper, 35x28 cm, 1959.
Artwork information: Jan Chwalczyk (1924-2018), untitled, painting by adhesion method on paper, 35x28 cm, 1959 Painting on paper by adhesion method is the pouring of paint on the surface of water and then "collecting" it on paper. The artist can only control this process to a certain extent, i.e. the painting process is like a reflection of nature and its processes. The painting has an organic form and dates from the artist's first period. Investment work, very good condition.
Jan Chwałczyk (1924-2018) studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (now the Academy of Fine Arts) from 1946 to 1951. In 1950 he married a fellow student, later a prominent minimal art and op art artist, Wanda Golkowska (1925-2013). Jan Chwalczyk's creative attitude and work from his early student years had the character of rational art, an attitude of research through art. The artist was interested in optical phenomena and the environment of their formation. He paid special attention to the relationship of light, color and form constituting a work of art. In addition to drawings, paintings and reliefs, he created structural works called "reproducers of light and shadow." Jan Chwałczyk was also an activist in the visual arts community of Wroclaw. He initiated, together with his wife W. Gołkowska, many artistic actions, including the creation of the "Under the Mona Lisa" gallery, and was also a member of the Wroclaw Group, founded on the initiative of Professor Eugeniusz Geppert in 1961. He was a participant in the most important meetings and symposia of avant-garde art in the People's Republic of Poland, often also initiating these meetings, or playing an important animating role in them. Among other things, he participated in the Koszalin Plein-Air in Osieki in the 1960s, the Golden Grape Symposium in Zielona Gora (1971) and the 1984-2005 Plein-Air for Artists Using the Language of Geometry, organized by Dr. Bożena Kowalska.
