Tadeusz Brzozowski

"Born in 1918 in Lviv, died in 1987 in Rome.Tadeusz Brzozowski was one of the most colorful among the members of the Krakow arts community.Although he remained close to the community, his link was that of a cat that walks its own paths - and he took his own artistic paths above all. In contrast to Tadeusz Kantor, who had a very serious approach to art, Brzozowski always stood at a distance from his own work. He frequently exhibited a playful attitude to his art, quoting it outright at times, and exhibited sarcasm both towards his achievements and his status as an exceptional, respected, and admired artist. Nevertheless, he indubitably deserved the position he held.(...)Brzozowski's canvasses began to be dominated in the formal realm almost equally by tattered areas of intense color and sharp, convulsive lines . He energized his paintings by using bold, reverberating colors. In his drawings, which for this artist were an autonomous activity rather than something that served his painting, this function was taken over by a delicate, sometimes unpredictable line . He continued these explorations in subsequent years creating a series of works enchanting for the nearly alchemic knowledge of pigments he demonstrated in creating them . These attracted the eye with a boldness of color, refined materials, and often strongly emphasized textures, and were surprising for their fanciful, somewhat archaic titles of Galician provenance . These works sometimes elicited astonishment because of their expressive power and were stylistically distinctive, guaranteeing the artist both critical and public acclaim.
In the last years of his life Brzozowski reverted to figurative compositions that were formally unembellished, subtle, and intimate in tone .."(Author: Malgorzata Kitowska-Lysiak, Art History Institute of the Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Art Theory and the History of Artistic Doctrines, December 2001.- Cultura.pl)