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Brzeg, approx. 1962
Brzeg is an oil painting on canvas measuring 100 x 70 cm, signed in the lower left corner: JTarasin. On the stretcher bars there are export labels from Desa from 1962 and a label describing the work. The artwork was created around 1962 and belongs to the group of the artist's early works, characterized by abstracted, fleshy shapes dynamically emerging from a flat painted background. This style is close to matter painting and manifests Tarasin's emerging creative idea based on painting matter and texture. These works feature a rich texture achieved through applying many layers of paint, which intriguingly react to light. The theme and form indicate a continuous attempt to tame objects and their materiality, incorporating life into a network of material relations, emphasizing the meaning and logic of nature beyond the patterns of culture and civilization.
Portrait of the Creator
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Artist
Jan Tarasin
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Date of birth and death
11 September 1926 – 8 August 2009
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Natinality
Polish
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Style
Avant-garde, abstraction, metaphysical symbolism
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Significant works
Series of canvases depicting objects as metaphysical signs, social and avant-garde posters including ‘Bumelant’
Information about the work
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Year:
ok. 1962
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Execution technique:
oil, canvas
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Theme:
abstraction, matter painting, materiality, relations between nature and culture
Internal Narrative and Creative Framework
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Inner Narrative
The painting explores the duality between the materiality of form and unreal abstraction, showing dynamic forms as emanations of life and nature, which are simultaneously carriers of deeper meanings.
The key to interpreting the work
The interpretation should consider attention to texture, materiality of paint, and philosophical reflections on the relationship between nature and culture, significant for Tarasin's work.Auction information
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Estimated price:
200 000 - 250 000 zł
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Auction price:
180 000 zł
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