Jan TARASIN (1926-2009), Situation, 1983

oil, canvas; 100 x 70 cm;
Signed and dated. Medium: Jan Tarasin83;
On the reverse, on canvas, inscription: JAN TARASIN / SITUATION 1983, and an oblong stamp, underneath it the number: WZ III - 2635 / 85 (and an illegible signature in parentheses); on the stretcher, inscription: DEP. 10/85.
Jan Tarasin is a consistent artist, with a formed idea and artistic views. A painter freely expressing himself in many other fields of art such as drawing, graphics, photography, literature, focused on analysis and creation. An artist who, simplifying the surrounding world to a sign or rhythm, was inspired by nature, observing its mechanisms, Eastern art, painting by old masters such as P. P. Breughel, Vermeer, El Greco. The artist also studied the "structure" of chaos. "Painting is a kind of notebook for me [...] The forms resemble embryos that are not fully defined, but I don't want to overcomplicate them [...]. I want to keep them in such a moment, when everything can still happen, when everything is still to come" [Tarasin, 1999].