Art Academy in Warsaw

Warsaw art exhibition - Comix'sage

At the beginning of December there was an exibition Comix'sage - study of the process coming from simple drawn lines to final artwork. You may see fragmented work on the walls and the final comix booklet.

Authors of presented drawings and paintings: Gabriel Kołat, Daniel Gembus, Wojciech Prokop and Daniel Baum.

At the vernissage it was possible to meet hosts T-Raperzy znad Wisły - Sławomir Szczęśniak // Grzegorz Wasowski and listen to great Polish accordion player Dariusz Świnoga.

Art exibition in Warsaw - this time in completely new place SKWER located at Krakowskie Przedmieście 62, on the little triangle between KP and Pałac Kazanowskich.

Street art - fire dance on the street of Warsaw

I just saw it yesterday in front of subway - Centrum station, crossing of Marszałkowska and Jerozolimskie.

Warsaw street art - fire dance

Naive folk art - isn't it sweet?

Folk art is not popular in Poland - I would say more - we ignore it. Maybe because most of us come from peasants grandparents.
15.000 guys representing the upper class were deported from Poland by Russians in 1940 and killed. This fact is known as "Katyn massacre" and in fact it was mass execution on Polish elite.
When I was at the college (during communist time) this fact was wiped away from the history books.
Believe in human free spirit!
We knew about Katyn from Second Hand information flow :) I remember asking history teacher about it - ohh! my rebelious character! - she was very tongue-tied...
Lately our best movie director Andrzej Wajda made movie about it named Katyn. His father was killed there. Movie was nominated for Oscar this year - didn't get it.
I have a friend that worked at production of this movie and I was told, that production crew was moved and depressed during shooting and production.

But I digress.

There is certain naive beauty in Folk Art paintings, sculptures, religion's objects, entertainment's objects, clothes, crafts and decoration of houses and furnitures.

Is this orange guy not handsome? He was about 140 cm tall and costs 50 euro.

Folk Art is born from heart's need. Simple and non educated artists create works full of artistry and colours.