Boguslaw Szwacz (1912-2009), Horme classical no. 6, 1975

mixed technique, oil, tempera, canvas pasted on board, 41.5 × 101.5 cm, described on the back: '1975 |HORME 75 B |HORME CLASSIC No.6 |MIXED TECHNIQUE TEMP. OLEJ | DIMENSIONS: 40 cm x 99 cm price 25 000 PLN | IN WARSAW' repeated on stretcher.

EXHIBITED:
- Exhibition of the 2nd All-Polish Jan Spychalski Painting Competition,
Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych "Arsenał", Poznań 1975

Visual artist, painter, sculptor, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Boguslaw Szwacz studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1931-1937. After the war in Cracow, he co-founded the Group of Young Visual Artists, and in 1947-1948, while on scholarship in Paris, he became a member of the French group "Le Surrealisme Revolutionaire".
He participated in the First Exhibition of Modern Art at the Cracow Palace of Art in 1948. At the time of socialist realism in art, he exhibited at the National Exhibitions of
of Fine Arts (1950, 1952, 1953), and during the "thaw" he took part in the Second and Third Exhibitions of Modern Art at Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery (1957, 1959). He showed his works at the exhibition
"Confrontations" at the Crooked Circle Gallery in Warsaw (1961), at the "Golden Cluster" Symposium in Zielona Gora (1963) and at the Biennale of Spatial Forms in Elblag (1965). In 1964, he formulated an original concept of Art of Moving the Imagination: Ars-Horme, according to which he worked until the end of his life. The concept of Ars-Horme (Art of Moving the Imagination) is concretized in paintings whose variations are defined by the terms ars-hormegram, ars-hormegraph and ars-hormegraph. These are compositions built from small forms, whose rhythms and densities on the plane are further accentuated by texture and color.