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SOME COMMENTS ON OBJECTS AND PAINTING (EXCERPTS)
JACEK KAWAŁEK


[...] In the world of painting an object stops being an object. Even by definition. In painting a still life, a painter paints a picture. He does not observe things as they are. He observes and strives to see what is most important from his point of view. Pure painting, "captured" in things and objects. He performs a peculiarly creative act, in that he imposes order on the world of things. He discovers relationships and affinities between things. At the same time he uncovers their internal and external contrasts. [...]
By observing, or actually "looking", as Józef Czapski stated, a painter stays open. [...] Perhaps, running the risk of rhetorical exaggeration and philosophical imprecision, we could say that a painter accepts pneuma, or as the ancient Greeks explained, stays open to the air, wind, spirit and breath. He becomes open to anything that does not belong to him and that comes from outside. [...] According to the Stoics, pneuma means life and is the source of all transformations in the universe: the mind of the world or "active fire" that penetrates and revives everything. [...]
A painter sees with his touch, his skin and his nerves. The eyesight, eyes and retina constantly provide him with stimuli to see in that way. Looking at objects while painting is neither a meditation nor contemplation. Still critics often resort to such expressions to explain something which at first glance seems completely hermetic, and thus cannot be explained with words only. During such an observation, objects change into mediumic beings; thanks to them a painter is able to hear or see mysterious and ambiguous voices from beyond time and space, which cannot be sensed anywhere else. [...]

JACEK KAWAŁEK, graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Since 1986 he has been working in the Fine Arts Secondary School in Rzeszów (now called the Complex of Arts Schools). Between 1974 and 1981 he published reviews and articles about fine arts in the Rzeszów and Warsaw press. He is the author of introductions to catalogues and the editor of albums about works of Franciszek Frączek Słońcesław and Zbigniew Krygowski etc. He was a member of a panel preparing the Encyclopaedia of Rzeszów (Encyklopedia Rzeszowa (2004)) responsible for the part devoted to art and the author of several dozens of individual entries in the encyclopaedia.



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The 5th Polish Painting Forum - Orelec 2006