Jaroslaw Modzelewski – Balcony [2005]

Jaroslaw Modzelewski is a Polish painter, illustrator, and educator. Modzelewski was born in Warsaw on October 8, 1955, and currently resides in Warsaw. In the early years of his creative career, Modzelewski used abstract signs and ideograms to construct his paintings, though these were soon superseded by simplified, multiplied stencil motifs. Between 1986 and 1989 he produced figurative paintings whose forms (colour, modelling, and perspective) corresponded with those characteristic of realism, which were unusually aggravating for their depiction of figures and especially the situations represented.

[Egg distemper on canvas, 120 x 180 cm]