Maciej Szczurek, Freezing river on a winter night
Size: 140 x 80
Technique: Acrylic and ink on canvas
Year of creation: 2023
Bornin 1982 in Krakow, Poland,he is a graduateof theFaculty of Painting at the Jan MatejkoAcademy of FineArtsin Krakow. Jan Matejkoin Cracow in thestudioofProf. LeszekMisiak. Dynamicsand expressionin his paintingscontrastwith calmand tranquility, and emptinessis asimportant anelement of thepainting in them as filling. Afrequentmotifappearing in his workare flowers and plantelements not depictedfor their own sake(and especially of their beauty), but whicharecarriersofthe ideaoftransienceand theBaroque"impermanenceof thethings ofthisworld ."