Dimensions: 74 x 60 cm
Signed and dated l.d.: 'SZWACZ | 56 | XI'
Biography
Studied at the Krzemieniec High School from 1924 to 1930. In 1939 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he became a lecturer after the war. From 1946 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, and from 1948 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In the second half of the 1940s, he exhibited with the Group of Young Visual Artists. In 1947, he traveled to Paris. In Paris, he joined the group "Le Surréalisme Révolutionnaire." In 1948, he returned to Warsaw. He became associated with the Club of Young Artists and Scientists. His works were presented at the First Exhibition of Modern Art (1948/49). He participated in almost all official exhibitions of the Socialist Realist period. He adhered to the concept of the so-called Ars-Horme (Art of Moving the Imagination), an original and one of the few general theories of art that existed in Poland today. Beginning in 1956, he developed the Ars-Horme theory. He was active in avant-garde circles; he exhibited, among others: at the Second and Third Exhibition of Modern Art in Warsaw (1957 and 1959), at the Krzywe Kolo Gallery in Warsaw (1962 and 1963), at the First Biennial of Spatial Forms in Elblag (1965) and during the "Golden Grape" Symposia in Zielona Gora (1973 and 1976).
