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Piotr Szeminski

Frederick Chopin's Mazurka - Contemporary Portrait Painting, Music & notes
By Ryszard Marian Owczarek
Located in Warsaw, PL
, Janina Kowalewska-Tarkowska, Piotr Szemiński i Krzysztof Wachowiak. He was a four-time holder of the
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Cardboard

Frederick Chopin - Contemporary Portrait Painting, Music & notes, Realism
By Ryszard Marian Owczarek
Located in Warsaw, PL
, Janina Kowalewska-Tarkowska, Piotr Szemiński i Krzysztof Wachowiak. He was a four-time holder of the
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Cardboard

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Ryszard Marian Owczarek for sale on 1stDibs

Ryszard Marian Owczarek was born in 1946. He studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of professor Tadeusz Dominik and professor Stefan Gierkowski. He was an assistant in the studio of lithography of professor Józef Pakulski and professor M. Rojewski. Between 1975–79, he was a member of the Symplex S-4 group along with artists such as Andrzej Bąkowski, Marian Czapla, Maja Gumińska, Janina Kowalewska-Tarkowska and Piotr Szemiński i Krzysztof Wachowiak. He was a four-time holder of the scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and Art. In 1980, he received the award of the Minister of National Defense for his artistic output. Owczarek participated in many solo and collective exhibitions and plein air. His works may be found in many private and public collections in Poland and abroad.

A Close Look at Contemporary Art

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.

While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.

Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.

Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.

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