Barbara Kwasniewska Art

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Barbara Kwasniewska a Polish artist who lives and works in Paris. Known for her large colourful carborundum etchings in the 70's. best known for her unique works of art, which bring together various abstract shapes with bright pop art inflections of color and fun patterns. She was born in 1931 in Warsaw, Poland. She studied painting at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Cracow, Poland. Kwasniewska's was a member of 'The Group of Five', later named the Nowa Huta Group, that sprang up in Cracow after World War II. What basically bonded these young artists was the atmosphere in their common studio at the Cracow Academy as well as their desire to oppose the traditional standards and models. She then moved to Paris where she was married in 1958. Her printmaking studies were under Johnny Friedlaender at his atelier. She obtained Honorable Mention at the Ljubljana, Yugoslavia Biennale in 1961, and her work was selected to be shown at the Second Biennale of Paris. In 1963 she won first prize as a foreign painter, awarded by the Friends of the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris. Polish artists of the twentieth-century Avant-Garde of various schools and trends. Tadeusz Makowski was influenced by Cubism; while Wladyslaw Strzeminski and Henryk Stazewski...

Barbara Kwasniewska a Polish artist who lives and works in Paris. Known for her large colourful carborundum etchings in the 70's. best known for her unique works of art, which bring together various abstract shapes with bright pop art inflections of color and fun patterns. She was born in 1931 in Warsaw, Poland. She studied painting at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Cracow, Poland. Kwasniewska's was a member of 'The Group of Five', later named the Nowa Huta Group, that sprang up in Cracow after World War II. What basically bonded these young artists was the atmosphere in their common studio at the Cracow Academy as well as their desire to oppose the traditional standards and models. She then moved to Paris where she was married in 1958. Her printmaking studies were under Johnny Friedlaender at his atelier. She obtained Honorable Mention at the Ljubljana, Yugoslavia Biennale in 1961, and her work was selected to be shown at the Second Biennale of Paris. In 1963 she won first prize as a foreign painter, awarded by the Friends of the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris. Polish artists of the twentieth-century Avant-Garde of various schools and trends. Tadeusz Makowski was influenced by Cubism; while Wladyslaw Strzeminski and Henryk Stazewski...

Artist: Barbara Kwasniewska, Polish (1931 - ) Title: Altrontements Year: 1971 Medium: Embossed Screenprint, signed, titled, and numbered in pencil Edition: 20/30 Size: 34 x 29.5 in....