digital printout / paper
59.4 x 76 cm (passe-partout light)
74 x 91 cm (framed)
signed p.d.: T. Dominik; inscribed and dated midd.d.: landscape 2009
Inscribed l.d.: Graf. comp. 1 ex.
Tadeusz Dominik (1928-2014) - painter, printmaker, worked in artistic textiles, ceramics and computer graphics. From 1946 to 1951 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He earned his diploma in the studio of Professor Jan Cybis. The professor had a strong influence on Dominik's understanding of painting - the artist adopted the principle that a painting cannot copy nature, it must be a kind of color and texture interpretation. In 1951, he began teaching at the capital's university and went through all levels of his academic career, from assistant to full professor (1988). He was twice dean of the Painting Department of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He retired in 1990. He is a recipient of, among others, the Jan Cybis Award (1973) and a Ford Foundation scholarship (1962). After graduating from the Academy, Tadeusz Dominik, in addition to painting, also created graphics, which quickly found recognition in the eyes of critics. His black-and-white, realistic woodcuts operated with chiaroscuro that gave the works a painterly quality. Dominik had previously developed his own unique style in painting, to which he has remained faithful for years, consistently perfecting the language of artistic expression. From the beginning, one can almost observe the characteristic formal features of his painting: round or oval dots and spots of rather irregular shapes, often constituting a trace of brushstrokes. The surface of Dominik's canvases from the 1950s and 1960s is jittery, swirling, with single, illuminated spots standing out. From round and oval forms the artist built landscapes, depicted his vision of the natural world on his canvases.
Tadeusz Dominik's works can be found in many museums and private collections at home and abroad, including the National Museums in Krakow, Poznan, Warsaw,Wroclaw, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, Museum Albertina in Vienna, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
