Rafal Gadowski
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Rafał GadowskiFlamingos 31. Figurative Oil Painting, Colorful, Pop art, Animals, Polish artist, 2025
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Rafał Gadowski is a Polish painter born in 1973. He studied at the European Academy of Arts, Warsaw, as well as at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He received his diploma in 1999. He participated in numerous collective and individual exhibitions. Gadowski’s works can be found in many private collections in Poland and abroad. His paintings are characterized by an intense and lively palette of colors. The subject of his work are elements of everyday life, he mainly paints animals and still lifes. His works can be divided into three cycles, objects, animals and children. Color and light are the means of expression with which Gadowski creates artworks fulfilled with dynamics and detailed compositions.
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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.
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