Wieslaw Obrzydowski (1938 Krakow - 2017 Krakow), "Augustian". - double-sided work, 1996

Condition
deformed stretcher

Biography
Studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, under the direction of: W. Taranczewski, T. Lakomski, C. Rzepinski. In 1966 he received a diploma in the studio of H. Rudzka-Cybisowa. Until the early 1980s, his work remained in the shadow of artistic life. The artist did not fit into the canons of avant-garde explorations of art of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1987, his works were exhibited as part of the exhibition "Radical Realism, Concrete Abstraction" at the National Museum in Warsaw. Two years later, the Sopot BWA organized a retrospective exhibition of his works. At the beginning of the 1980s, he was considered a precursor of "Polish Expressionism" and "a continuator of the figuration of the 1950s." It was then that W. Obrzydowski burned almost all the works he had created in 1966-68 and began to oppose the prevailing colorism. His works are characterized by sloppiness and ugliness, the artist often painted on the back of canvases or on stretchers.