The Revolutionist

Andrzej Borowski studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, at the Departments of Graphics and Painting in the atelier of professor Zbyslaw Marek Maciejewski. In 1994, he was awarded the National Competition for the Best Landscape in Contemporary Painting (Cracow, 1994). His selected exhibitions include Colony, Nurnberg, Düsseldorf, Soolingen, Jever, Tilburg, Sandomierz, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Gandawa, Rzeszów, Strasbourg, Mallorca, New York and Bordeaux. "As Giorgio Vasari wrote five hundred years ago in his Lives of Artists, the painters owe Giotto Bondone as much as they own nature that is their model, and which most wonderful aspects they imitate. Andrzej Borowski is one of those privileged artists, who reach out for the traditions of Florence masters' fresco with total consciousness. By watching the great works of Toscanian art revolutionists, he learned humility against reality in its most timeless aspect. The relevance to nature, the objective beauty and remarkable harmony in Borowski's paintings is a legacy of the harbingers of Renaissance, similar to their finding of the long-forgotten values of classic arts. And here it emerges, among the noisy and full of chaos reality, in life and art, so much traditional yet fresh art radiating with beauty. Golden, Giotto-like third plans, warm sienna colors blended with decorative lines determine the continuity of art, which can remarkably renew itself, as the rebirth of man, every age is the tale of revival," writes Katarzyna Napiorkowska.

Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, explore and communicate ideas and express themselves. To bring abstract, landscape and still-life paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.

When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.

Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs. Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.

No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel. Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color?

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