Author: Viktor Zin
Title: Zawada Neighborhood (1973)
Technique: gouache, watercolor, cardboard
Dimensions: 23.3 x 32 cm
Dimensions with frame: 35.5 x 43.5 cm
Signed and inscribed underneath: "Wiktor Zin | Zawada Neighborhood 73".
Artwork description:
Wiktor Zin drew not only architecture, but also created impressionistic rural landscapes. In the work on display, showing the surroundings of Zawada, a Malopolska village near Olkusz, the artist created an unusually painterly image of the Polish landscape using fluid color patches and expressive outlines. The artist was first and foremost a draughtsman, and as a result, line is the main means of expression in the compositions he created.
In this landscape, Viktor Zin's characteristic and easily recognizable line is complemented by dark navy blue, blue, yellow and white, from under which the light brown color of the painting ground shines through. The composition is characterized by freedom and lightness, which aptly captures the aura of idyllic rural tranquility. The artist, taking a somewhat unrealistic in terms of color, the mundane motif of a lowland landscape and an overcast sky, included a fleeting moment filled with a lyrical and subtle mood.
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