Jan DOBKOWSKI (b. 1942 Lomza), In the sink, 2008

Acrylic, canvas; 114 x 130 cm;
Signed and dated p. d.: Jan Dobkowski 2008;
Signed, dated and author-described on the back: Jan Dobkowski / "IN TONI" 2008 / ACRYL / 114 x 130 cm

Provenance:
- collection of the artist
- NEW media art gallery
- private collection, Poland

Line as an element that creates the structure of a painting plays a very important role in the artist's work. It becomes the basis of elaborate forms, sometimes resembling people or objects. This is evident both in the painter's paintings and in his drawing works, and as early as the 1960s Dobkowski admitted that the line is the basic tool of his creative act and has not only plastic but also conceptual properties. In his works, the artist readily refers to eroticism and sexuality as an essential property of human nature. For the artist, they are closely related to each other. Man in his paintings of the artist seems to be free from cultural and social norms, closer to primal instincts, stimulated by emotions and biology. For him, nature is a source of life, vitality and unfettered energy. At the same time, the body and the passion awakening in it, are depicted in a sophisticated way, devoid of blunt vulgarity.