JKK Fine Arts - Gallery of Modern Symbolism

My article on Polish Symbolist painter, Mieczyslaw Jakimowicz (1881-1917)

2012-01-10T15:28:00.000-08:00

http://www.kurierpolskimn.com/Jakimowicz.html

Portrait of Leopold Gottlieb by Mieczyslaw Jakimowicz

2011-09-28T17:46:00.000-07:00

New postcard from JKK Fine Arts (Symbolism No6)

The Photographic Art of EGON

2011-09-09T16:49:00.000-07:00

http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/08/photographic-art-of-egon.html

HYPNOS - artist's book

2011-07-22T14:49:00.000-07:00

Covers of my recent photo-books

2011-07-22T14:46:00.001-07:00

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/publications

ISLE OF THE DEAD - Homage to Arnold Bocklin

2011-06-25T17:11:00.000-07:00

Photo Copyright by EGON & JKK Fine Arts

The John Dugdale School of XIX C. Photography and Aesthetics Fundraiser

2011-04-07T15:22:00.000-07:00

http://www.thejohndugdaleschool.com/fundraiser2010/

Please, support the School and its creator, John Dugdale!!!

Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski "The Choice" 1943

2011-03-12T08:46:00.001-08:00

PRAYER OF THE TRAVELER MR COGITO by Zbigniew Herbert (fragment)

2011-02-12T18:10:00.000-08:00

... let me understand other people other languages other sufferings and above all let me be humble that is to say one who longs for the source ...

TADEUSZ BORUTA 'SAINT SEBASTIAN'

2011-02-10T11:30:00.000-08:00

"Saint Sebastian" acrylic paintig by Polish contemporary painter, Tadeusz Boruta. Exhibited: "Flesh and Passion. The Fervor of Saint Sebastian", New York 2008

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NARCISSUS BY OSCAR WILDE

2011-02-10T11:27:00.000-08:00

Photo Copyright EGON

Photo from the "Narcissus" by Oscar Wilde book. Limited ed. of 50 copies. Upper Montclair 2008

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NARCISSUS BY OSCAR WILDE

2011-02-10T11:25:00.000-08:00

Photo Copyright by EGON

From the Photo-book "Narcissus" by Oscar Wilde. Limited ed. of 50 copies numbered. Upper Montclair 2008.

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NARCISSUS BY OSCAR WILDE

2011-02-10T11:22:00.000-08:00

"DEath of Narcissus" Photo Copyright EGON

Photo from the Photo-book "Narcissus" by Oscar Wilde. Photos by EGON. Limited edition of 50 numbered copies. Upper Montclair 2008.

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LUIGI CASALINO 'SOUL'S EMBRACE'

2011-02-10T11:14:00.000-08:00

Luigi Casalino "Soul's Embrace", 2010, limited ed. etching

Exhibited: Naked Bodies, Naked Souls 2010, Loft Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY 2010

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LUIGI CASALINO 'A'PRES CARAVAGGIO'

2011-02-10T11:11:00.000-08:00

Luigi Casalino, "A'Pres Caravaggio" 2011, limited ed. etching

Photo Copyright EGON & JKK Fine Arts

Contact: http://www.jkkfinearts.com/Casalino

ZBIGNIEW HERBERT 'THE ENVOY OF MR COGITO'

2011-02-10T11:09:00.000-08:00

Zbigniew Herbert "The Envoy of Mr Cogito" (fragment)

Photo Copyright EGON

ZBIGNIEW HERBERT 'THE RAIN'

2011-02-10T11:05:00.000-08:00

Zbigniew Herbert "The Rain" (fragment)

Photo Copyright EGON

FEMME FATALE

2011-02-10T11:00:00.000-08:00

Unique Cyanotype prints on red stock paper. 2009. Edition of 1. Photo Copyright EGON & JKK Fine Arts.

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ENTOMBMENT

2011-02-10T10:58:00.000-08:00

Unique toned Cyanotype print on Canson watercolor paper.

Photo Copyright EGON & JKK Fine Arts, 2010.

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IGOR MITORAJ 'IKARO'

2011-02-10T10:56:00.000-08:00

Unique selenium toned black and white print on AGFA paper, edition of 1.

2009. Copyright EGON.

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IGOR MITORAJ 'IKARIA'

2011-02-10T10:53:00.000-08:00

Unique Selenium toned black and white print on AGFA paper, edition of 1.

Photo Copyright EGON, 2009

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FAUN (BACCHANALIA series)

2011-02-10T10:51:00.000-08:00

Original Cyanotype prints (20) on Pro Art watercolor paper, 32" x 50"

Edition of 1 copy. Copyright EGON & JKK Fine Arts, 2009

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/photography

JOHN THE BAPTIST

2011-02-10T10:49:00.000-08:00

Original Palladium print on Arches Platine. Edition of 2. 2010

Photo Copyright EGON & JKK Fine Arts

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BIKERS

2011-02-10T10:41:00.000-08:00

Unique Cyanotype print on Strathmore watercolor paper. Ed. of 2. 2009. Photo Copyright by EGON & JKK Fine Arts http://www.jkkfinearts.com/photography

CLAIRE

2011-02-10T10:18:00.000-08:00

Claire - 6 versions from the same negative - experiments in the darkroom

Photo Copyright EGON & JKK Fine Arts

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DAVID VANCE 'EGON'

2011-02-10T10:17:00.001-08:00

Original drawing by David Vance. Copyright David Vance. 2007.

http://www.davidvance.com/

DAVID VANCE 'EGON'

2011-02-10T10:15:00.000-08:00

Original drawing by David Vance. Copyright David Vance. 2007.

http://www.davidvance.com/

LUIGI CASALINO 'SAINT SEBASTIAN'

2011-02-10T10:12:00.000-08:00

Original etching by contemporary Italian graphic artist, Luigi Casalino. Limited ed. of 20. 2008

Contact JKK Fine Arts http://www.jkkfinearts.com/Casalino

LUIGI CASALINO 'SAINT SEBASTIAN'

2011-02-10T10:08:00.000-08:00

Original etching by contemporary Italian graphic artist, Luigi Casalino. Edition of 20.

2008

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/Casalino

LUIGI CASALINO 'PINOCCHIO'

2011-02-10T10:03:00.000-08:00

Original etching by contemporay Italian graphic artist. Edition of 20 copies.

Available from JKK Fine Arts http://www.jkkfinearts.com/Casalino

LUIGI CASALINO 'LITTLE PRINCE'

2011-02-10T10:01:00.000-08:00

Original etching by contemporary Italian graphic artist, Luigi Casalino, limited ed. of 20 copies

Available: http://www.jkkfinearts.com/Casalino

STONE LIPS

2011-02-10T09:59:00.000-08:00

Sepia toned black and white print
2008
Photo Copyright EGON
Contact: http://www.jkkfinearts.com/

EGIDIJUS RUDINSKAS 'GARDEN OF MEMORIES'

2011-02-10T09:55:00.000-08:00

Original etching by contemporary lithuanian artist

2001

Limited ed. of 50 copies numbered

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DUOMO IN ORVIETO

2011-02-10T09:53:00.000-08:00

Black & white photograph

2008

Photo Copyright EGON & JKK Fine Arts

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CIVITA (Umbria, Bagnoregio)

2011-02-10T09:51:00.000-08:00

Unique Cyanotype print on Pro Art watercolor paper, Edition of 3

2009

Photo Copyright EGON & JKK Fine Arts

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CIVITA (Umbria, Bagnoregio)

2011-02-10T09:48:00.000-08:00

Unique Toned Cyanotype print on Canson paper

Private Collection, Upper Montclair, NJ

Photo Copyright EGON & JKK Fine Arts

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/photography

FEMME FATALE

2011-02-10T09:45:00.000-08:00

Unique Cyanotype prints on Pro Art watercolor paper

2009, Edition of 3

Photo Copyright EGON & JKK Fine Arts

Contact http://www.jkkfinearts.com/photography

AN AMERICAN PRAYER

2011-02-10T09:42:00.000-08:00

Unique toned Cyanotype prints

on Pro Art watercolor paper,

Edition 1/1, 2009

Photo Copyright EGON & JKK Fine Arts

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ALTARS OF THE BODY

2011-02-10T09:38:00.000-08:00

Unique Cyanotype prints on Pro Art watercolor paper

2009

Photo Copyright EGON & JKK Fine Arts

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"Crucifixion" by EGON

2011-02-06T15:13:00.000-08:00

Unique Cyanotype toned print on Canson watercolor paper

Edition 1 of 1 as is.

Framed.

Available through http://www.jkkfinearts.com

"A Rose"

2011-02-06T15:09:00.000-08:00

Toned Cyanotype print on Pro Art watercolor paper

Framed.

Edition 1 of 1

Available through http://www.jkkfinearts.com

"The Pebble" by EGON

2011-02-06T15:03:00.000-08:00

Cyanotype print on Pro Art watercolor paper

Edition 1 of 1

Available through http://www.jkkfinearts.com

"Les yeux etranges" by Mieczyslaw Jakimowicz

2011-02-06T14:56:00.000-08:00

new postcard available from http:///www.jkkfinearts.com/publications

DEATH OF ADONIS

2011-02-06T14:50:00.001-08:00

Limited ed. of 50 numbered copies

New York 2011

6" x 8", 48 pages

available through http://www.jkkfinearts.com

HOMAGE TO EGON SCHIELE

2011-02-06T14:46:00.000-08:00

Limited ed. of 50 numbered copies

New York 2011

6" x 8", 64 pages

available through http://www.jkkfinearts.com

THE BLUE BOOK

2011-02-06T14:42:00.000-08:00

My new book with Cyanotype prints on watercolor paper.
Limited ed. of 50 numbered copies.
New York 2010
6" x 8", 34 pages

available through http://www.jkkfinearts.com

My photo site on Behance Network

2010-11-28T16:56:00.000-08:00

http://www.behance.net/EgonPhotography

Aleksandra Nowak "Portrait of a Girl"

2010-09-26T15:37:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas, 2005, 8" x 10"

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Aleksandra Nowak "Apollo"

2010-09-26T15:36:00.001-07:00

Watercolor on paper, 1994, 16" x 12"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Dancer"

2010-09-26T15:35:00.001-07:00

Oil on canvas, 2000, 30" x 24"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Dream"

2010-09-26T15:34:00.001-07:00

Oil on canvas, 2005, 20" x 24"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Still Life with Apples"

2010-09-26T15:33:00.001-07:00

Oil on canvas, 2003, 8" x24"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Inspiration" (Portrait of Egon)

2010-09-26T15:32:00.001-07:00

Oil on canvas, 2009, 12" x 24"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Saint Sebastian" (sketch)

2010-09-26T15:30:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas, 2008, 24" x12"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Man of Cracow"

2010-09-26T15:29:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas, 2003, 11" x 20"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Serenity" (Portrait of Egon)

2010-09-26T15:28:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas, 2001, 18" x 24"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Observer" (Portrait of Egon)

2010-09-26T15:27:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas, 2000, 20" x 16"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Longing" (Portrait of Egon)

2010-09-26T15:26:00.001-07:00

Oil on canvas, 1999, 11" x 14"
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Aleksandra Nowak "JanEgon"

2010-09-26T15:25:00.001-07:00

Oil on canvas, 1999, 18" x 24"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Egon"

2010-09-26T15:23:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas, 1999, 10" x 8"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Jan Egon"

2010-09-26T15:22:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas, 1998, 12" x 16"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Chrysalis" (Portrait of Egon)

2010-09-26T15:21:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas, 1998, 16" x 12"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Emotions"

2010-09-26T15:20:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas, 1998, 16" x 20"
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Aleksandra Nowak ""Blue Egon"

2010-09-26T15:18:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas, 1997, 8" x 10"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Egon"

2010-09-26T15:17:00.000-07:00

Watercolor on board-paper, 1998, 18" x 13"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Egon"

2010-09-26T15:15:00.000-07:00

Watercolor on board-paper, 1998, 19" x 13"
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Aleksandra Nowak "Boy with a Pillow"

2010-09-26T15:11:00.000-07:00

Watercolor on paper, 1996
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Naked Bodies Naked Souls

2010-08-12T17:27:00.001-07:00

NAKED BODIES NAKED SOULS

2010-07-08T12:40:00.000-07:00

"Naked Bodies, Naked Souls"
a group exhibit at Loft Gallery

Aleksandra K. Nowak "Morning" Oil on Canvas, 18" x 24",
Fot. Jan K. Kapera, JKK Fine Arts

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/events/index.html

WHAT: "Naked Bodies, Naked Souls," a group exhibit

WHEN: August 13-September 4, 2010

Opening reception from 7-9 p.m. on Friday,
August 13, 2010
WHERE: Loft Gallery, Delaware Arts Center, 37 Main St, 2nd
Floor, Narrowsburg, NY
COST: Free and open to the public

An international array of artists is showing original paintings,
sculptures, photographs, and limited edition hand-pulled prints for
the first time in the Upper Delaware Valley as part of "Naked Bodies,
Naked Souls," a group exhibit curated by Jan Kapera of JKK Fine Arts.
The exhibit opens at the Loft Gallery at the Delaware Arts Center in
Narrowsburg, NY on Friday, August 13, with a reception from 7-9 p.m.
The show will be on view through September 4.

"The realm of 'Naked Bodies, Naked Souls' is a very private, personal
world; a world of artists' secrets, dreams, feelings, and deepest
emotions," says curator Kapera. "They have expressed the unexpressed--
they have found the way to show spiritual and mystical states of soul
in dream-like, symbolic images."

This exhibit features the work of 16 international artists: Daniel
Barkley (Canadian), Luigi Casalino (Italian), Joanna Chrobak (Polish),
John Dugdale (American, NYC), Barbara Falender (Polish), Michel
Henricot (French), Michael Kuch (American, MA), Tom Misztal (American,
OR), Aleksandra Nowak (American, NJ), Darek Nowakowski (American,
NYC), Egidijus Rudinskas (Lithuanian), Krzysztof Skorczewski (Polish),
Lubomir Tomaszewski (American, CT), David Vance (American, FL), Damian
Wojtowicz (Polish), and Piotr Woroniec (Polish).

"'Naked Bodies, Naked Souls" is not about eroticism, it is about the
beauty of the body and the soul," says Kapera. "It is about human
emotions - loves, sorrows, desires and quests, happiness and despair."

Free and open to the public, the exhibit is sponsored by the Delaware
Valley Arts Alliance, the Arts Council for Sullivan County, NY, and is
made possible in part with public funds from the Visual Arts Program
of the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.

Loft Gallery is located at the Delaware Arts Center at 37 Main Street,
Narrowsburg, NY. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. For more information about the exhibit call (845) 252-7576 or
visit www.ArtsAllianceSite.org

The Ascension

2009-11-22T11:35:00.001-08:00

My Photos: "The Ascension" triptych, 13 x 40 inches, 2009

Image Copyright: Jan K. Kapera, 2009

My work

2009-11-22T11:21:00.000-08:00

My Photos: "My work" cyanotype prints on watercolor paper, 2009

My Photography ...

2009-11-22T11:15:00.000-08:00

If  one would ask me to describe my approach toward photography

I would use the words of the best Polish Romantic Poet, Cyprian

Camil Norwid:

"There is one Angel, who by its wings gathers

The laughter and the pain, and all that's not so hurtful

Takes into hand the human's chaos, such as it was alive..."

For me, it is all about HUMAN EMOTIONS, how to show them,

how to explain something unexplained, human soul, human chaos,

desires, loves, sorrows …

Human face, especially eyes, and hands, their gestures, are magical

signs to human soul; to show them is the meaning of life for me as

a photographer …

I am Eastern European. It means, if I want that or not, everything

I do has a kind of mystery to it, enigmatic quality. It is not simple

or straightforward. It’s full of symbols and tends to be soulful and

introspective. Some of my clients says that it is “sad”, but I always

try to show them this introspective quality to it, explain stories

within stories. Wistful melancholy, surreal fantasy, and somber

physical presence are well recognized qualities.

Most of the images I am working on now are Cyanotypes.

My favourite photographers from XIX/XX: Frederick Holland

Day, Clarence White, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Edward Steichen,

Julia Margaret Cameron, and Gertrude Käsebier, among others;

from contemporary Masters: John Dugdale, David Vance, Herb

Ritts, and Joel-Peter Witkin…

Image Copyright: Jan K. Kapera "Rose", cyanotype print, 2009

American Art Awards

2009-03-10T15:07:00.000-07:00

Visit American Art Awards hosted by Thom Bierdz.
JKK Fine Arts - Gallery of Modern Symolism is one
of the judges in 2009 edition.
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Visit: http://www.americanartawards.com/home.html

Claire - Homage to Eugene Carriere

2008-10-19T16:58:00.000-07:00

My Photos: "Claire" - Homage to Eugene Carriere

Image Copyright: Jan K. Kapera

Zbigniew Herbert "Old Masters"

2008-08-10T16:03:00.000-07:00

My favourite Poetry

Zbigniew Herbert "Old Masters"

The Old Masters
did without names

their signatures were
the white fingers of the Madonna

or the pink towers
di citta sul mare

also scenes from the life
della Beata Umilta

they dissolved
in sogno
miracolo
crocifissione

they found shelter
under angels’ eyelids
behind hillocks of cloud
in the thick grass of paradise

drowned completely
in golden firmaments
without a cry of terror
or clamor for memory

their paintings’ surfaces
are smooth as a mirror

they are not mirrors for us
but mirrors for the chosen

I invoke you Old Masters
in hard moments of doubt

let pride’s serpent scales
fall from me by your aid

let me remain unmoved
by temptations of fame

I invoke you Old Masters

Painter of the Rain of Manna
Painter of the Embroidered Trees
Painter of the Visitation
Painter of the Sacred Blood

Image Copyright: Leonardo da Vinci "Lady with an Ermine", Czartoryski Museum, Cracow, Poland

Michel Henricot "La Fausse Suivante"

2008-08-09T17:35:00.000-07:00

Image Copyright: Michel Henricot "La Fausse Suivante"

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/Henricot

Rafal Pisarczyk "Egon on his Deathbed II"

2008-08-09T17:33:00.000-07:00

Image Copyright: Rafal Pisarczyk "Egon on his Deathbed II"

Rafal Pisarczyk "Egon on his Deathbed I"

2008-08-09T17:31:00.000-07:00

Image Copyright: Rafal Pisarczyk "Egon on his Deathbed I"

Igor Mitoraj in Cracow

2008-08-09T17:29:00.001-07:00

My Photos: Igor Mitoraj in Cracow
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Photo Copyright: Jan K. Kapera

Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski "To the Virgin Mary"

2008-08-09T17:23:00.000-07:00

To the Virgin Mary
…
Let’s simply say, Mary, it hurts so much,
all of it, this paucity of heart:
behold the sunrises of the condemned,
children that grew, and here, Mary, silent
even before God – death.
…
Virgin Mary, here are hands shriveled up
like dry brooks out of which could have
grown such gardens, green explosions of
trees, out of which could be houses of
light. Now teach our eyes to convert
terror and wrath into canopied space.

Holy Mary, sing our significance without
end – the higher the poplar of song, the
closer for us to reach from the depths.

I end here. That is all. Like dried
shavings my lips.
O silent one, they would imprint your
visage in these unyielding days.

August 1943

Image Copyright: Aleksandra Nowak "To The Prince Of Poets - Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski"

Luigi Casalino "Narcissus"

2008-08-08T12:31:00.000-07:00

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/exhibitions/narcissus/Narcissus.pdf
Image Copyright: Luigi Casalino "Narcissus" etching

Narcissus by Piotr Woroniec

2008-08-08T12:27:00.000-07:00

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/exhibitions/narcissus/Narcissus.pdf

Image Copyright: Piotr Woroniec "Narcissus"

Fot. Copyright: Damian Wojtowicz

Damian Wojtowicz Narcissus

2008-08-08T12:25:00.001-07:00

Image Copyright: Damian Wojtowicz "Narcissus"

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/exhibitions/narcissus/Narcissus.pdf

Damian Wojtowicz Narcissus

2008-08-08T12:23:00.000-07:00

Image Copyright: Damian Wojtowicz "Narcissus"

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/exhibitions/narcissus/Narcissus.pdf

Dangerous Beauty

2008-08-08T12:22:00.000-07:00

My Photos: Dangerous Beauty

Image Copyright: Jan K. Kapera

Bee

2008-08-08T12:19:00.001-07:00

My photos: Bee

Image Copyright: Jan K. Kapera

Art Nouveau

2008-08-08T12:15:00.000-07:00

My photos : Art Nouveau

Image Copyright: Jan K. Kapera

Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski "Generation"

2008-08-08T12:09:00.000-07:00

"Generation" by Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski (1921-1944)

…
And so we stand on wagons and tanks,
on airplanes and on rubble,
as over us crawls the snake of silence,
we do not know: does time stand still or flow.
Like strange cities dug up from the deep,
mounds of people turn grey
lying prone or standing up,
not knowing, if we are pages of the Iliad
sculpted with fire in shining gold,
or whether from pity at least, they’ll put
crosses above our graves.
.
July 22, 1943

Image Copyright: Aleksandra Nowak "Epitaph"

Zdzislaw Beksinski

2008-07-31T16:51:00.000-07:00

Zdzislaw Beksinski
One of the most famous Polish contemporary painters. Born in the town of Sanok in 1929. After a childhood was spent during the Second World War, Beksinski went on to university where he studied architecture in Cracow. In 1958, Beksinski began to gain critical praise for his photography, and later went on to drawing. His highly detailed drawings are often quite large, and may remind some of the works of Ernst Fuchs in their intricate, and nearly obsessive rendering. Beksinski eventually threw himself into painting with a passion, and worked constantly, always to the strains of classical music. He soon became the leading figure in contemporary Polish art. The artist has had many exhibitions throughout his native Poland and Europe, Japan, and the United States. Beksinski's art hangs in the National Museums in Warsaw, Sanok, Cracow, Poznan, Bydgoszcz, Torun, and the Göteborgs Art Museum in Sweden. Beksinski began painting in oils on masonite around the year 1970. His ability to manipulate the effects of light quickly became a hallmark of his work. Beksinski's paintings are masterfully rendered, monumental enigmas. One thing they share is an aesthetic of beauty so potent that it overpowers any desperate nature of the given subject matter. Beksinski's paintings from the 1990s have grown less representational over the years and now seem almost abstract in nature. Color and texture and now the principal themes in themselves. Beksinski was murdered in February of 2005, during a robbery attempt at his flat in Warsaw.

Lubomir Tomaszewski "Water Nymph"

2008-07-31T16:46:00.000-07:00

NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY
NEWS BULLETIN October 2006

Water Nymph wins People’s Choice Award

Connecticut based, Polish-American sculptor, Prof. Lubomir Tomaszewski’s Water Nymph won National Sculpture Society’s People’s Choice Award at the “Literary Sculpture” exhibition at NSS Headquarters on Park Avenue in New York City. The three-foot long work, made of wood and metal, depicts a mermaid floating gracefully in the currents. The piece (now in Private Collection in Harrington Park, NJ) was also included into the show MODERN POLISH MASTERS at JKK FINE ARTS Gallery of Modern Symbolism.

Image Copyright: Lubomir Tomaszewski "Water Nymph". Private Collection, Harrington Park, NJ.

Graydon Parrish - Modern Master

2008-07-31T16:34:00.000-07:00

"I have done something sad, but also something that I hope people will find beautiful," he says. "It's a work that's both celebratory and austere."

One of the best artists alive I am aware of.
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Graydon Parrish on his art:
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“Only through the most arduous study can one create art. Each picture I paint is based on through research in the science of light, form, and technique as well as the study of the old masters. This attention to craftsmanship is in marked contrast to the modern movement in art where unconscious paint platters and runny dribbles have given way to more and more gimmicks and perversions. In my opinion, ideas are better expressed through clarity and beauty. They should invite contemplation, not horrify nor disgust the viewer...Every painting that I offer is the result of years of study and contemplation. Classical art is timeless; it belies trends and fashions. A classical painting speaks to those who love quality and are moved by appearance of the world around them.”
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Critics on his art:

Miles W. Mathis: http://www.mileswmathis.com/parrish.html

James Panero, "The New Criterion": http://www.newcriterion.com/posts.cfm/graydon-parrishs-cycle-of-terror-4351

Image Copyright: Graydon Parrish "Remorse, Despondence, and the Acceptance of an Early Death", AMHERST COLLEGE, MA

Cyprian Kamil Norwid "A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem"

2008-07-31T16:22:00.000-07:00

A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem

Ius iurandum patri datum usque at hanc diem ita servavi... Hannibal

- Why ride away, Shadow, hands broken on the mail
Sparks of torches playing around your knees -?

The laurel-green sword is spattered with candle tears,

The falcon strains, your horse jerks its foot like a dancer.

- Pennons in the wind blow against each other

Like moving tents of nomad armies in the sky.

Long trumpets shake in sobbing and banners

Bow their wings, which droop from above

Like spear-pierced dragons, lizards and birds...

Like the many ideas you caught with your spear...
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Mourning maidens go, some lifting their arms

Filled with scent-sheaves torn apart by the wind;

Some gather into shells tears breaking from the cheek,

Some still seek the road that was built centuries ago...

Others dash against the ground huge pots of clay

Whose clatter in cracking yet adds to the sorrow.
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Boys strike hatchets blue against the sky,

Serving lads strike light-rusted shields,

A mighty banner sways amid the smoke, its spear-point

Leaning, as it were, against the arcs of heaven...

They enter and drown in the valley... emerge in the moonlight

Blackening the sky, an icy glare brushes them

And glimmers on blades of spears like as tar unable to fall,

The chant suddenly ceased, then splashed out like a wave...

On - on - till it's time to roll into the grave:

We shall behold a black chasm lurking beyond the road

(And to cross it humanity will not find a way)

Over the edge we shall spear-thrust your steed

As though with a rusting spur...

And we'll drag the procession, saddening slumber-seized cities,

Battering gates with urns, whistling on blunted hatchets,

Till the walls of Jericho tumble down like logs,

Swooned hearts revive - nations gather the must from their eyes.. .

On -on -

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Luigi Casalino "Credo"

2008-07-27T12:27:00.000-07:00

"... From you, as from burning chips of resin

Fiery fragments circle far and near:

Ablaze, you don't know if you are to be free,

Or if all that is yours will disappear.
Will only ashes remain and confusion

Whirling into the void? - or will there shine

Amidst the ash a starlight diamond,

The dawning of eternal victory! ..."

Cyprian Kamil Norwid

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/exhibitions/missalatina

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/Casalino

John Paul II - Letter to Artists

2008-07-27T12:20:00.000-07:00

John Paul II - Letter to Artists
To all who are passionately dedicated to the search for new "epiphanies" of beauty so that through their creative work as artists they may offer these as gifts to the world.
The artistic vocation in the service of beauty.

A noted Polish poet, Cyprian Norwid, wrote that "beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up". The theme of beauty is decisive for a discourse on art. It was already present when I stressed God's delighted gaze upon creation. In perceiving that all he had created was good, God saw that it was beautiful as well. The link between good and beautiful stirs fruitful reflection. In a certain sense, beauty is the visible form of the good, just as the good is the metaphysical condition of beauty. This was well understood by the Greeks who, by fusing the two concepts, coined a term which embraces both: kalokagathía, or beauty-goodness. On this point Plato writes: "The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful"…

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/exhibitions/missalatina

http://www.jkkfinearts.com/Casalino

Egidijus Rudinskas "Garden of Memories"

2008-07-27T12:12:00.000-07:00

Image Copyright: Egidijus Rudinskas "Garden of Memories" , 2000, limited ed. of 50 copies, etching; July 8th, 2000 - First Prize at the 1 Biennale Internazionale di Grafica del Comune di Francavilla al Mare, Italy
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http://www.jkkfinearts.com/Rudinskas