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Kasprzyk studied under Professors Michal Bylina and Jacek Sienicki
at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He graduated the Academy in
1977 and taught there for 12 years. He has been featured in
numerous solo exhibitions throughout Europe and in many group
exhibitions. Kasprzyk's paintings are about relationships the
relationships of one person to another, between a man and his dog
or between the individual and his or her surroundings, for
example. If Kokoryn is the painter of the short story or the folk
ballad, Kasprzyk is the painter of the oft-told tale. The written
composition is done once, and that is it. The folk story is told
over and over, always in much the same way but always with a
nuance in the words or the manner in which it is told. So it is
with Kasprzyk's paintings. He paints the same stories many times
over, but always with subtle (or not-so-subtle) variations in
color, composition or mood. His characters are engaged in trivial
and often absurd activities juggling, chasing birds, tight-rope
walking or building human pyramids in the middle of now here but,
as Wojciech Tuleya describes it, "the characters in the pictures
are very much involved with them. Their earnestness gives rise to
a sense of irony; we feel that Mikolaj is winking at us." His
painting technique is 19th century and his characters practically
medieval, but there is a contemporary composition in each painting
and a familiarity in his characters that make his paintings
distinctly modern.
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| Giotti's Angel (2008) |
oil on linen
15 x 21 |
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| Zajaczek (2007) |
oil on linen
16 x 24 |
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| Morning (2008) |
oil on linen
15 x 21 |
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