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Jan
21

Portraits

Portraits Portraiture, is to me the most fascinating form of artistic activity. During my travels I always carry with me a cornet where I constantly sketch different faces trying to register the moment of time through the facial imagery. I always feel as I am stilling from the portrayed individuals their moment of a passing time. When after I look at them back I have the ultimate power to rewind their...
Jan
20

Formula 1

Formula 1 Formula 1, a racing competition between the industrial giants of great marks of sport cars, which bits all records of popularity among all classes of our contemporary society. It is interesting to see the glamor created around it. The most powerful cars in the world are driven by drivers surrounded by beautiful women and lot of noise from super powered motors. It is a great show to many. I am not...
Jan
9

Satyrical Artwork

Satyrical Artwork I began to draw satirical drawings from 1983. It all started by accident. I made a few funny commentaries on our life in socialist realities in Eastern Block to my friend during one of our conversations. He was then already recognized cartoonist in Polish press media, He invited me to draw something funny for two festivals of satirical art. One was taking place in Montreal, Canada, and another in...
Jan
8

Caricatures

Caricatures Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) is generally considered by various scholars as a creator of the caricature due to his drawings and paintings depicting various characters in somehow caricaturist way. Before Carracci, Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) also sketched of his contemporaries the  particularities of their facial characteristics . Giuseppe Archimboldo (1527-1593) also had his own way to compose...
Dec
25

The First Nations

The First Nations The artwork “The Premonition in the Badlands” represents the compact summary of the imperialist attitude towards The Native Nations. Symbolically it depicts the general attitude of the Colonizer towards the Colonized and its evident consequences. I have appropriated one of Edward S. Curtis’s photographs in order to depict the essence of the conflict of interest existing between...
Dec
25

Selected drawings: The First Nations

Selected drawings: The First Nations Collection of life sketches from the Kahnawake POW WOW, 2009 Dancing Girl ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 6 brown marker and watercolors
Dec
25

Selected paintings: The First Nations

Collection of artworks reflecting the Contemporary realities of the First Nations The Prairies ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 3 Artwork inspired by the picture of Edward Sherrif Curtis, acrylic paint on canvas
Nov
25

Metamorphic Impressions

Metamorphic Impressions The exposition Metamorphic Impressions consists from a collection of drawings and paintings created of my artistic imaginary voyage through the surrounding me Modern realities. Our Contemporary realities force us to perform faster and better in order to preserve the standard of life considered as comfortable by modern society. The extreme speed of technological progress in every aspect of human...
Nov
25

Collection of Metamorphic Impressions Paintings

Collection of Metamorphic Impressions Paintings Selection of Metamorphic Impressions artwork. Celluralman ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 25 Pencil drawing on raw canvas and acrylic varnish
Sep
9

Mona Lisa – the most intriguing painting

Mona Lisa,1 the portrait of a beautiful Florentine woman is probably one of the most known feminine images in the world, painted by the greatest artist of The Italian Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci. Since 500 years its magnifying power has been inspiring unsolved mysteries and multitudes theories, concerning the origins of the characteristics deeply psychological expressions on her face: her dual smile and...
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