Adam Marczynski, INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE, second half of the 1930s.

56,0 x 45,0cm - oil, canvas signed p.g.: adam marczyński



Exhibited painting:

- Never Again. Art Against War and Fascism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw 30 August - 17 November 2019.



The painting, Industrial Landscape, presented in the exhibition, was created just after the artist's period of study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, during which he was loosely associated with the avant-garde, politically engaged milieu of the Krakow Group. The unrealistic, gloomy depiction of an industrial city contains an element of social sensitivity characteristic of Group members: In it, Marczynski portrays a scene from the life of the working class, which in the 1930s was hard hit by the effects of the economic crisis in Poland. The artist approaches the subject in a personal, authorial way: he paints it in a large format, alludes to post-impressionism, uses simplified, synthetic forms and tries to make an impact with the colors and texture of the painting. (https://nigdywiecej.artmuseum.pl/pl/artysta/adam-marczynski)





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Adam Marczyński (Krakow 1908 - Krakow 1985) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow from 1930 to 1936 under Prof. Władysław Jarocki and Stanisław Pieńkowski. He received his diploma in 1936. During his studies, he traveled to France and Spain (1930), and after graduation - to France (1936). In 1933-1934, he was associated with the "Cracow Group" (the so-called "First Group"), with which he exhibited twice. He also made stage designs for the "Cricot" theater. He spent the first years of World War II in Lviv. He returned to Cracow in 1941. After the war, he took up teaching work at the Academy of Fine Arts (from 1945, professor 1951, dean of the Faculty of Painting 1970-1972, retired in 1979). At the same time he re-associated himself with the circle of artists gathered around Tadeusz Kantor and Maria Jarema, who in 1957 established the so-called second "Krakow Group." Marczynski remained a member of it and exhibited with it until the end of his life. He was involved in painting, drawing, stage design, printmaking and book illustration. He also made polychromes in churches. In the 1950s he created cubic painting compositions of bright colors, suggesting neither landscapes nor views of underwater worlds, characterized by a poetic, surreal mood, reminiscent of the art of Paul Klee and Joan Miró. His drawings of the time, drawn with a delicate line, harmonized with the expression of his paintings. From around 1960 he made a series of objects entitled Concretes, referring to the painting of matter, in which he used as material sheets of wooden plywood or veneer, tar paper, less often sheet metal, additionally subjected to various treatments, such as burning, destroying the surface, etc. Since the mid-1960s, he created objects with variable elements - built from freely juxtaposed "boxes" with tilting lids. Different configurations of their inclination caused variable rhythms of the whole composition. The artist exhibited a lot, including. At the Olympic Exhibition, London 1948 (honorable mention and diploma), the Venice Biennale of Art in 1956, the Second and Third Exhibition of Modern Art, Warsaw 1957 and 1959, the Second International Biennale of Graphics, Ljubljana 1957 (honorable mention), the Sao Paulo Biennale of Art 1959 and Documenta in Kassel 1959, the "Golden Grape" Symposia, Zielona Gora 1963 and 1965, the First Biennale of Spatial Forms, Elblag 1965.