color serigraphy, 70.00 x 68.00 cm
signature, description, author's date on passepartout
Wojciech Fangor - Born in 1922 in Warsaw.During the war he studied privately with T. Pruszkowski and F.S. Kowarski, and graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1946. Initially he tried to find his own formula of socialist realism (Mother Korean, 1951). Discouraged by Socialist Realism, he turned to posters and graphics, then sought his own artistic formula, painting pictures of simplified forms. In 1958, in Warsaw, he made a forerunner to environments, a spatial composition using his paintings (exhibition Study of Space, together with S. Zamecznik). It was then that he began to paint abstract paintings pulsating with colors, giving the impression of movement. In the early 1960s he went abroad and in 1966 settled permanently in the USA, where he combined his experiments as an abstractionist with figurative painting close to hyperrealism. In 1999 he returned to his home country. Wojciech Fangor is one of the few Polish artists of the post-war period who were ahead of their time in the world with their work. He is also to date the only Polish artist to have had a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The artist became known primarily as a creator of op-art-inspired spaces, which he created mainly in the 1960s and 1970s.
