Mieczyslaw Knut (1953), Painting 15, acrylic on canvas, 65x50 cm, 1998
Information about the work:Mieczyslaw Knut (1953), Image 15, acrylic on canvas, 65x50 cm, 1998, upper left back, signature: Mieczyslaw Knut (1953), Image 15, acrylic on canvas, 65x50 cm, 1998 The artist's paintings are mystical in nature. The creative process itself seems to be the result of meditation, which does not reduce the aesthetic feelings of the work, it even enhances them. M. Knut's paintings are marked by classical beauty and aesthetics. The form and color create a space of meditation also for the viewer, the viewer, as it were, invited inside the painting. An investment work with a tendency to grow.
Mieczyslaw Knut (1953) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (now the Academy of Fine Arts) in Gdansk, graduating in the studio of Prof. W. Jackiewicz. He received his doctorate in art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2005, and his habilitation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland, in 2012. Author of 22 solo exhibitions and participant in 80 group exhibitions at home and abroad. He belonged to the group of artists centered around the theoretical concept of Dr. Bożena Kowalska and participants of the International Plein-Air for Artists Using the Language of Geometry, organized by her, held first in Okuninka near Chełm (1986-2000), then at the Polish Sculpture Center in Orońsko (2001-2008) and in Radziejowice (2009-2018). He is a member of the Thomist Society. The artist's work is characterized by tranquility and meditation. "(...) The characteristic features of these paintings are illusory textures and a strongly ascetic color scheme. The dominant color is white always treated as a symbol, as the color of the extra-material absolute. All paintings were painted with the unique technique of stratification of acrylic paints developed by the author." In Poland, Mieczyslaw Knut's work is represented by Galeria Kościelak.
