Do przyjaciół lekarzy, wiersz klasyka na Wywrocie

17. edycja projektu Fotografia Kolekcjonerska zakończyła się sukcesem. Fotografia Witkacego 'Potwór z Düsseldorfu' została wylicytowana za 170 tysięcy złotych. To najdroższe sprzedane do tej pory zdjęcie na aukcjach w Polsce. W trakcie wydarzenia można było wziąć udział w licytacji prac najwybitniejszych polskich artystów wykorzystujących medium fotografii. Zaprezentowane zostały unikatowe zdjęcia, różnorodne techniki, style, epoki oraz wielkie nazwiska.

Allow us to introduce you to the quirks that make Witkacy the prototypical hipster.

Schyzia - his cat <3

Painter, illustrator, art critic and theoretician, a writer representing the nineteenth-century trend of realism, creator of the Zakopane style in architecture.

Czesław Miłosz pisał o Stanisławie Ignacym Witkiewiczu w "Traktacie moralnym": "Umysł drapieżny. Jego książek nie czytać prawie obowiązek…". Czy miał rację, że Witkacy jest znany, doceniany, ale nieczytany

Allow us to introduce you to the quirks that make Witkacy the prototypical hipster.

The exhibition about the relationship between Polish artist Stanisław Witkiewicz and his son, created in their hometown of Zakopane, visits Kaunas.

fot. dzięki uprzejmości Biblioteki Muzeum Tatrzańskiego w Zakopanem

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, pseudonym Witkacy, was a Polish painter, novelist, and playwright, well known as a dramatist in the period between the two world wars. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Witkiewicz traveled in Germany, France, and Italy. In 1914 he left for Australia as the artist and photographer of an anthropological expedition led by Bronisław Malinowski. Three years later, as a reserve officer in the Russian Army, Witkiewicz witnessed the Russian Revolution. In 1918 he settled at a provincial cultural centre, Zakopane, at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. He committed suicide at the beginning of World War II. Witkiewicz’s plays anticipated the Theatre of the Absurd of Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett in their deliberately contorted characters and plots and their use of grotesque parody. Rapid tempos, warped time juxtapositions, and catastrophic incidents are combined with an original and symbolic use of language in such plays as Kurka wodna (1921; The Water Hen) and Wariat i zakonnica (1925; The Madman and the Nun). Witkiewicz’s works began to be revived in Poland and the West in the 1950s and were a perennial feature of Polish and foreign theatrical repertoires. Some of his plays were published in English translation in The Witkiewicz Reader (1992). His novel Nienasycenie (1930; Insatiability) projected a vision of cruel totalitarianism gaining control over nations and individual destinies. A number of his expressionistic paintings survive, and they form part of many museum collections in Poland and abroad. For more details see the following link: info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/witkacy/witkacy.html