Boguslaw SZWACZ (1912 - 2009), Arshormegram black, 1969

oil tempera, canvas; 130 x 110 cm;
Signed and dated l. d.: * STITCHER * 1969 *;
Sign, date and author's description on back: SZWACZ / 1969 / * / WARSAW / 8a m11 Church Street / * / "ARTHORMEGRAM CZARNY". [sic!] / * / * 130 x 110 cm * / * / temp. oil. / * below repeated abbreviated version of the author's description, on the reverse, on the loom various stickers with descriptions: - pertaining to another of Boguslaw Szwacz's paintings - Composition from the series "Aura" No. 3 from 1958; - export CBWA Zachęta - Exhibition of Polish Art in Geneva in 1959; - Musee d'Art et d'Histoire - Exhibition "Art Polonais" in Geneva 1959; - gallery Trade Union of Polish Artists in Cracow DOM PLASTYKÓW and a description of analogous content as on the canvas.
Boguslaw Szwacz received his diploma from the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts in 1937. In the 1940s, he joined the Young Visual Artists group centered around Tadeusz Kantor. In 1947, as a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and Art, he traveled to France. There he met artists associated with the magazine "Le Surréalisme Révolutionnaire." He was appointed by Noël Arnaude, the magazine's editor, as one of the co-founders of the Surrealist movement. After returning to Poland, he settled in Warsaw and became a lecturer at the State Higher School of Fine Arts (ASP). It was then that he joined the Club of Young Artists and Scientists. He chose abstract art as his language of artistic expression, which he believed was universal. Beginning in 1955, the artist abandoned figurative painting and began to create his own concept of Ars-Horme art - "Art of Moving the Imagination" on canvas.