Jacek Sienicki, CZŁOWIEK, 1990

130.0 x 85.5 cm - oil, canvas signed on back in black paint: 129 x 85 JACEK | SIENICKI | "CZŁOWIEK" | ol. pł. 1990

l.g.: 7002 [in frame] above, export stamp, on corner reinforcement p.g. repeated no.: 7002.

Provenance:

- A painting purchased in the 1990s from the artist for the Museum of European Art in Osaka, Japan.

- After the museum closed, private collection in Asia.



Janusz Jaremowicz wrote this about the human figures in Jacek Sienicki's paintings: If Sienicki did not paint compositions with human figures, he would still be a great individual painter. However, his "portraits" are perhaps the highest fulfillment of his art. They illuminate with their meaning the entirety of this work. Of course, there is no proper portrait intention here, the artist is not painting an ix or igre. The human figure is an approximation of existence, existential situations. In the "portraits" the figure is interpreted with an emphasis on lines, or more precisely, on the edges of the solid. This primacy of edges idealizes the figure, almost shades it. The line-edge does not exist, it is what we guess at the junction of color patches, while it is the patch that has concreteness. Sienicki paints idealized figures not in anecdote, not in an aura of moralism, but in their structure, in being. It is a way of expressing spirituality, if we can say so, in its ontological essence. (Janusz Jaremowicz, Separate Painter, in Jacek Sienicki, Lowicz 1994, p. 26)

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Jacek Sienicki (Warsaw 29 II 1928 - Warsaw 14 XII 2000) studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he received his diploma in the atelier of Prof. Artur Nacht-Samborski in 1954. In 1955 he was a participant in the Exhibition of Young Visual Arts at the Warsaw Arsenal. Participation in this manifestation was not only the artist's proper debut, but also defined for years his attitude, shared with other "Arsenalists", whose principles were: the primacy of ethics, skepticism towards passing artistic fashions, loyalty to oneself. In 1955 Sienicki began teaching at his alma mater. He passed through all academic levels, receiving the title of professor in 1981. He was the recipient of significant awards, including the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Criticism Award in 1974, the Jan Cybis Award (independent) in 1984, and the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Award in 1993. From his early years, his painting oscillated between figurativism with an often dramatic existential message and a tendency toward abstraction. At the same time, the painter did not abandon a rather limited set of favorite motifs, which included horse skulls, elongated figures, dark interiors, which he played out in a similar dark-cold color range. In parallel to painting, he drew a lot, usually in charcoal, treating works in this technique as autonomous works.