mixed technique (gouache, corrector, pastel), paper; 23 x 12 cm (light frame), signed and dated at center, bottom: szwacz / 2001
Polish visual artist, painter, sculptor, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1930 he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He studied in the studios of Prof. Ignacy Pienkowski, Wladyslaw Jarocki, Karol Frycz, Jan Hoplinski, Teodor Axentowicz and Xawery Dunikowski, among others.He graduated with honors in 1937 and was granted unlimited use of the art studio as part of the rector's scholarship.
He made his debut at a time when Socialist Realist art was dominant. After 1953, he decided to devote his attention to abstract art, which he believed was absolutely universal. Thanks to a scholarship he won, he went to Paris in 1947. That's when he became a member of the group "Le Surréalisme Révolutionnaire" and established contacts with Fernand Léger, Édouard Pignon, Estèv and Noël Arnaud. These two factors led him to abandon figurative painting from 1955 onward, and he began to create his own concept of Ars-Horme art - "Art of Moving the Imagination."
