DOI Artikel:
Stano, Bernadeta: "Odzieranie świata z łatwych uroków": o malarstwie artystów Grupy Nowohuckiej
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17164#0078
Among the functions which at that time were ascribed to avant-garde formations
their expansive activity came into prominence. However, in the case of the group
discussed here this factor was manifestly ignored - their exhibitions never went
beyond their milieu, art critics did not keep pace with them, and the older artists
from the Cracow Group, engaged in their mounting, were not particularly keen on
backing up the activities of another, not self-reliant formation. As a result, the art-
ists of what after many years came to be called the Nowa Huta Group, in its origins
going back to 1956, in March 1961 joined the Cracow Group. The postulate dom-
inating the group's programme laid down on the occasion of the II Group Show was
to enrich the painter's materials. Each artist approached the problem differently,
but all of them unanimously repudiated the interpretation of their creations solely
from their formal and aesthetical aspects. Among the major ideological threads
running through matter painting created by the representatives of this formation
the problem of anamnesis comes to the fore, chiefly relating to their childhood
experience and to visual impressions from the places of particular importance to
the artists. In addition to artistic fascinations, it is worth noting their idea of cre-
ation in Cracow of a new cultural periodical entitled „Sketches", of which a single
number came out in February 1956, and also their participation in the productions
of the „Widzimisie" („Whim") Puppet Theatre in Nowa Huta from the end of 1957
to May 1960.
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their expansive activity came into prominence. However, in the case of the group
discussed here this factor was manifestly ignored - their exhibitions never went
beyond their milieu, art critics did not keep pace with them, and the older artists
from the Cracow Group, engaged in their mounting, were not particularly keen on
backing up the activities of another, not self-reliant formation. As a result, the art-
ists of what after many years came to be called the Nowa Huta Group, in its origins
going back to 1956, in March 1961 joined the Cracow Group. The postulate dom-
inating the group's programme laid down on the occasion of the II Group Show was
to enrich the painter's materials. Each artist approached the problem differently,
but all of them unanimously repudiated the interpretation of their creations solely
from their formal and aesthetical aspects. Among the major ideological threads
running through matter painting created by the representatives of this formation
the problem of anamnesis comes to the fore, chiefly relating to their childhood
experience and to visual impressions from the places of particular importance to
the artists. In addition to artistic fascinations, it is worth noting their idea of cre-
ation in Cracow of a new cultural periodical entitled „Sketches", of which a single
number came out in February 1956, and also their participation in the productions
of the „Widzimisie" („Whim") Puppet Theatre in Nowa Huta from the end of 1957
to May 1960.
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