Own technique, collage, canvas; dimensions: 90 x 54.5 cm; not signed. Work from the collection of the artist's family.
Janina Muszanka-Łakomska (1920-1982)
Painter. She studied in Cracow at the Institute of Fine Arts (textile department) and at the Academy of Fine Arts (painting) in the atelier of Fryderyk Pautsch, Wojciech Weiss and Jerzy Fedkowicz. Wife of Cracow painter Tadeusz Lakomski. Long-time lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She has traveled extensively as an artist, including: to Italy (Individual exhibition at Rome's La Salita gallery), Turkey, Austria and the Balkans. She painted mainly compositions on the verge of abstraction, in oil, collage and drawing techniques. At the turn of the l. 50s and 60s she created a precursor series of collages ("Friezes"). In a series of colorful drawings from the late 1960s, Muszanka entered the path of very personal surrealism.
Janina Muszanka-Łakomska's path from realism to the apocalyptic visions of the art brut trend was a difficult one, marked by suffering and rejection by her surroundings. The poignant work of the gifted, beautiful artist, endowed with extraordinary imagination is, on the one hand, decorative compositions made of fabrics, on the other hand, personal accounts from the abyss of fears and phantasmagoric visions .... (excerpt from the exhibition catalog - "RED PAYING - GOLDEN MOTIL Janina Muszanka-Łakomska (1920-1982)").
