A decorated New Years card designed by Zbigniew Makowski.

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A folding sheet New Years card for 1971. With a design by Zbigniew Makowski, Inside is a lenghty autograph letter to the English critic and writer Norbert Lynton from the Polish Critic Jerzy Okiewicz. Creased and thumbed.(b Warsaw, 31 Jan 1930). Polish painter, draughtsman and poet. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1950-56) under the painter Kazimierz Tomorowicz (1893-1961). His first works, such as An Interior with a Stool (1956; Warsaw, N. Mus.), were paintings influenced by Polish Colourism, though he also made structural compositions of plaster casts with metal and wooden elements. He abandoned these experiments and in the 1960s began to explore the mysterious world of magic, astrology and the cabbala (e.g. Vertical Garden, 1961-2; Wroclaw, N. Mus.). His calligraphic compositions, which he described as 'letters written to unknown addressees', make use of graphic signs, numerals, letters and geometrical figures. Meticulously executed in various techniques, such as ink on parchment or oil on panel, these compositions convey a whole range of symbolic meanings. They are bordered with long, written texts that introduce the artist's philosophical thoughts on existence and our cultural traditions, and evoke the world of pagan beliefs and Greek mythology, as in Image (1965; Wroclaw, N. Mus.). He also painted Surrealist compositions with motifs of city landscapes, as in Horizon of Consciousness (1968; Warsaw, N. Mus.). With a similar multitude of graphic signs and the same care for detail, he created colourful images of an imaginary world. Inspired by literature, he included in some of his paintings appropriate quotations, for example from Homer. N° de ref. del artículo 010377

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