PIETRAS Elżbieta (b. 1950), [pastel, 1991] Sketch for a sculpture

PIETRAS Elżbieta (b. 1950), [pastel, 1991] Sketch for a sculpture; pastel on cardboard, 34.5 x 49 cm. Signed p.d.: "E. Pietras 91".

Elżbieta Pietras (born 1950 in Radom), graduated from the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, numerous individual and collective exhibitions, creates sculptures in marble, granite and bronze.

"The subject of almost all her sculptures is a female figure, always shown in a fragment, but in such a compositional arrangement that it forms a closed whole, never a mutilated figure. These naked, sensual figures, softly emerging from the formless matter of stones, combine the calmness and static of ancient statues with the contemporary expression of a synthesis devoid of precise detail. The artist's inspiration by Baroque sculpture in its classicizing trend, is manifested in the pursuit of harmony and decorativeness of compositional arrangements, to the ornamental styling of delicate, softly modeled draperies covering a nude body of classical proportions." [Lit.: Ewa Micke-Broniarek, Catalogue of the exhibition "Polish Women Artists," National Museum in Warsaw, 1991].