julita malinowska
Location: Krakow/Warsow/Poland
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Painting
Website
Wooloo Url
http://www.wooloo.org/Julitamalinowska
About
Sometimes paintings are like people, you see them and you know at once that you will
never forget them. This happened to me when I discovered the works of the polish artist
Julita Malinowska.
Her oil on canvas paintings had a strong emotional and visual impact on me. At frst, I
noticed the perfect composition, the beautiful colors and shapes. No matter which of her
paintings I look at, this experience is always renewed.
Then I pay attention to the subjects. Her work is about the human body and its movements.
In her earlier paintings, the sea, the beach and the horizon are still fgurative. Later they
become more and more abstract. Symbolically they represent different worlds or states of
life and her fgures are sometimes placed in between them or on different sides, each
caught in their own universe. She often paints children, and sometimes she plays with the
generation gap, depicting adults acting like children or children having adult activities.
Memories, the past, the future and the present interacting are a central theme in her works.
She also likes to show human bodies in unusual ways, she paints women who don't ft the
stereotypes of the beauty myth, elderly persons who need a can or caucasian bodies with
dark skins.
She is an extraordinary gifted painter and manages to put real beauty into everything she
represents.
Some years ago Julita travelled to India and spent several months painting and living there
doing meditation and refecting about the spiritual self and humanity.
In some of her latest works she combines abstract and fgurative panels who form diptychs
or triptychs. The public is invited to move the smaller piece around the central painting to
create their personal version of the art work. To me, this idea is an elegant manner to solve
the old dilemma between fgurative and abstract art.
Technically Julita uses exclusively oil on canvas and often produces imposing large scales.
She has also painted outdoor frescoes on huge walls in public spaces.
Julita lives in Krakow and works in a wonderful studio overlooking the old town. I feel glad
to know that I am welcome there and will always remember the two of us watching the
sunset together after a long day spent in her workshop unpacking, enjoying and discussing
her paintings.
written by Stephanie Zeller from Paris
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