Stanislaw FIJAŁKOWSKI (1922-2020), August 84, 13/84, 1984

oil, canvas; 100 x 73 cm;
Signed, dated and described on the reverse: S. FIJAŁKOWSKI 84 13/84 [in pencil].
EXHIBITED AND REPRODUCED:
- Stanisław Fijałkowski, WINDA Gallery, Kielce 2013, p.40.
PROVENANCE:
- Purchase from the artist;
- Private collection, Kielce.

Stanislaw Fijalkowski, next to Jerzy Nowosielski, is one of the most interesting
artists of the 20th century. Both artists, erudite artists, had the opportunity to meet
in Lodz, had lively discussions and exchanged views. They were also able to
teach and inspire each other. One such intellectual exchange
was Jerzy Nowosielski's knowledge of icons. In many of Stanislaw
Fijałkowski created since the 1960s, there is a characteristic
framing in the form of a thin color line, imitating the shape of the
of the sub-image. This outline can be interpreted as a bordering, similar to the
in an icon, separating the zone of the sacred from the profane. When viewing the paintings of Stanislaw
Fijałkowski the viewer is admitted precisely to the sacrum part of the artist's art
artist. The complexity, but at the same time openness to interpretation of the work of
Stanislaw Fijalkowsky is due to the fact that the artist with equal commitment
drew inspiration from the writings of philosophers and theological treatises, valued the
art theory of Wladyslaw Strzeminski and Kazimierz Malawicz, learned about
and made experiments related to color theory, visualized in his works
Masonic symbols and those taken from Judaic books.