Color lithograph. Dimensions: 91.5 x 61 cm (sheet)
Hand signature, in pencil, at the bottom: Author's Edition, "Krok", Lucjan Mianowski 71.
Lucjan Mianowski (born February 2, 1933 in Strzemieszyce Wielkie, died July 23, 2009 in Poznań) - Polish painter and graphic artist, professor of the Faculty of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań.
In 1950, he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in the poster studio led by Maciej Makarewicz, and continued under Konrad Srzednicki in the lithography studio. In 1955, Lucjan Mianowski's debut took place, and he exhibited his works at the National Exhibition of Young Visual Arts "Against War - Against Fascism" in Warsaw He received his diploma with honors in 1956, and three years later, thanks to a scholarship from the French government, he went to Paris to study at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts. He was a student of Pierre Clarin in the studio of lithography, his studies lasted from 1959 to 1960 and from 1963 to 1964. In 1964 he went to create in Scandinavia and stayed there for a year, after which he returned to the country and became a lecturer of lithography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. In 1967 he went on an artistic residency in France and Algeria, and four years later was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Minister of Culture and Art for his creative achievements and teaching work in1971. Mianowski's early works are expressionist and grotesque, later there are influences of surrealism and then informel. In the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, the artist used the achievements of pop art, began his first experiments with photography; from the late 1970s, the influence of hyperrealism appeared in his works. For the last several years of his life, he experimented with computer graphics. The artist was a master of color lithography. In the 1960s and 1970s he participated in the world's most prestigious graphic design competitions, festivals and presentations of Polish art in the West. He was known and highly regarded in Scandinavian countries, France and Japan. His work "Sunset" from 1964 "starred" in the film "Three Days of the Condor" by Sidney Pollack.
Lucjan Mianowski's work is in the collections of many museums and galleries in Poland and abroad, including the National Museum in Warsaw, Krakow, Bydgoszcz, Poznan, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum de Arte Moderna in Sao Paolo, Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Library of Congress in Washington, Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, Albertina in Vienna and others.
