Own technique (ink, pencil, crayon, gouache) paper pasted on board, 100 x 70 cm; signed l. g.: HMUSIAŁOWICZ; signed and inscribed on back; Z CYKLU / "WOJNA PRZECIW
CZŁOWIEKOWI" / 70 x 100 / 1963 / MUSIAŁOWICZ (in crayon).
"I want my art to have some inner strength and to make me reflect. That it should bring hope, being a metaphor of human
fate, in which both suffering, rebirth and solace are inscribed. I wonder how to speak through my art. How to give answers to the tragic questions of a man who may have lost the meaning of his existence
In the face of the terrifying golgotha of man".
Henryk Musialowicz
[after: Ewa D. Bogusz-Boltuć, interview with Henryk
Musiałowicz, Man and Artist, in Aesthetics
and Criticism, no. 6 (1/2004), p. 2] Few Polish artists have chosen to
to depict wartime experiences.
Especially those who lived through the war themselves.
In August 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising
Warsaw Uprising, the entire studio of Henryk
Musiałowicz was burned down. The artist, after obtaining his
diploma and the advent of the thaw in Polish art,
in 1956-1957, he traveled to the
Netherlands and France. Upon his return, the artist began
work on series of paintings-drawings
related to the events of the first half of the 1940s.
century. From 1957 was created the series Occupation
1939-1945, and from 1959 the War Against
Man. Both series are linked by the black-and-white
form of drawings and the vision of the fate of the suffering
man and society as a whole. Both series
subject to consideration the moral aspects of past
events.
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