Tadeusz Dominik (1928 Szymanów-2014 Warsaw), Untitled, 1959

watercolor, paper, 33 x 41 cm, signed and dated p.d.: T. Dominik Paris 59

Graduate and later also professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, student of Jan Cybis. Since 1965 he ran his own studio, and in 1979 he received the title of professor. He retired in 1990. During his time as a student, he was influenced - through the personality and art of Cybis - by the ideas of Polish Colorism, which he then continued creatively and independently. Initially, he created figurative paintings. He made his debut at the famous exhibition at the Warsaw Arsenal in 1955, where he won an award. In the second half of the 1950s, he began to paint abstract paintings, initially maintained in the expressive and spontaneous style of informel painting. In the 1960s, he enriched his works with textural effects. The painter's invariable inspiration was nature, the richness and color of its forms. He gradually lightened and smoothed his compositions, introducing decorative effects, such as rhythmic repetitions of forms or a kind of painted "raster", regularly marking parts of the composition. Among his many awards, he received the laurel of the "Golden Grape" in Zielona Gora in 1963, the Grand Prix of the Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting in Szczecin in 1968, the George Rowney Award in London in 1973 and the Jan Cybis Award in Warsaw in 1973. At the same time as painting, he was involved in tapestry, ceramics and later computer graphics.