A language of symbols
Critical writing about the artist returns to themes of memory, mortality, transience, religious imagery and fantastic visions. Expressive distortion creates tension between what can be seen and what can only be sensed.
JAN TOMASZEWSKI / ARTIST PORTFOLIO
Light in the shadows.
Painting, visions and imagination.
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About the artist
Jan Maria
Tomaszewski.
Jan Maria Tomaszewski's paintings evoke a world of symbols, unease, memory and figures suspended between reality and imagination. Here, a painting is more than a representation: it becomes a stage for inner experience.
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18 artworks
01Death over the City
115 × 170 cm
02Apocalypse
150 × 130 cm
03Panic of the Horses
130 × 100 cm
04Bleeding Stones
130 × 110 cm
05Madness of the Horses
110 × 130 cm
06Cloud of Angels
130 × 90 cm
07Memento Mori
120 × 90 cm
08The Artist in Hell
140 × 90 cm
09Ghostly Flowers
130 × 95 cm
10Procession
170 × 120 cm
11Lawyers
150 × 130 cm
12Vision of the Virgin Mary
170 × 90 cm
13Self-Portrait with a Corpse
Ø 100 cm
14Golgotha
165 × 120 cm
15My Friend Standing in Debauchery
160 × 110 cm
16Flowers
75 × 65 cm
17Beata's Angel
90 × 75 cm
18Raven
170 × 140 cm
High-resolution photographs will be added when original files are available.
ART / MEMORY / IMAGINATION
Images for the spirit. A theatre of conscience.
Painting and theatre
The accompanying texts present Tomaszewski as an artist working across painting, graphic art and theatrical imagination. Figures and gestures appear like performers on a stage, inviting the viewer to interpret their stories.
An encounter with the viewer
In his text ‘Instead of Thanks’, Jędrzej Karol Lipski, director of the Municipal Museum in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, emphasizes the artist's imaginative power and the viewer's active role in the encounter with the work.
Editorial adaptation based on photographs of the supplied Polish publications: ‘Jan Maria Tomaszewski’, ‘Obrazy dla ducha. Teatr sumienia’ and ‘Zamiast podziękowań’ (Dr Jędrzej Karol Lipski). This is not a verbatim translation.
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