DOI article:
Smaga, Magdalena: Twórczość Zygmunta Radnickiego (1894-1969)
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19073#0303
what is permanent and unchangeable in them. An oil painting entitled The Town (1962), in
which there predominates rationality, harmony and "order", is a continuation of the formal
analysis. At the same time, this painting creates the impression as if the painter was play-
ing with form, simplifying and geometrizing it.
In my article I have tried to explain what artistic phenomena defined the art of Zygmunt
Radnicki. One should state here that formism, which was the first distinctive and avant-
garde trend that the artist had come into contact with, exerted an influence on his entire
creative life. Since the middle of the twenties, color acąuires an extended and ever wider
artistic palette in the paintings of Radnicki. These to some extent opposing tendencies
(formal and colorist one) seem to co-exist in Radnicki's works. Yet one should state here
that his artistic activity developed more under the influence of Cezanne. After the war, the
artist tries to fit himself into the mandatory Socialist realist trend in his own specific way
Whereas later on, particularly after 1956, he returns to his experiments with form which al-
though derived from formism - still constituted a symptom of modernity in Poland at that
time. In my view, in the majority of these efforts and experiments, the artist had managed
to retain sincerity and originality as well as a high level of artistic expression.
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which there predominates rationality, harmony and "order", is a continuation of the formal
analysis. At the same time, this painting creates the impression as if the painter was play-
ing with form, simplifying and geometrizing it.
In my article I have tried to explain what artistic phenomena defined the art of Zygmunt
Radnicki. One should state here that formism, which was the first distinctive and avant-
garde trend that the artist had come into contact with, exerted an influence on his entire
creative life. Since the middle of the twenties, color acąuires an extended and ever wider
artistic palette in the paintings of Radnicki. These to some extent opposing tendencies
(formal and colorist one) seem to co-exist in Radnicki's works. Yet one should state here
that his artistic activity developed more under the influence of Cezanne. After the war, the
artist tries to fit himself into the mandatory Socialist realist trend in his own specific way
Whereas later on, particularly after 1956, he returns to his experiments with form which al-
though derived from formism - still constituted a symptom of modernity in Poland at that
time. In my view, in the majority of these efforts and experiments, the artist had managed
to retain sincerity and originality as well as a high level of artistic expression.
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