tadeusz nowotarski - opinions
Tadeusz Nowotarski is a mature artist, in his simplicity sophisticated and prominent. He paints figures, extremely sophisticated, giving oneself away by the fact that they are derived from the human figure. (He started from the realistic study of the man but it led him to nowhere). He has already painted over two thousand of such figures in oil, acrylic, on canvas, and if there is lack of it, on paper.
The human image is a peculiar place of meeting of what is experienced “from the inside" (we feel the man) with the experience of the world. Everything may happen here, in the highest temperature, with even the greatest tragic tension. Deprived of any similarity Nowotarski's figures, figures almost no longer objective, preserve great dramatic character. They sublime the figure, make it monumental. They are aiming at some glory which they reach. Workshop certainly combined with the application of means both simple and sophisticated makes him the old master. Who if not the old master has drawn the line which we can find in some of his compositions? The line almost invisible and fuli of content, sensitive. Colour sensitivity is also uncommon here. With all its sophistication everything which is important is caught in this painting at the first level of organization, at the root.The point is that painting comes here from the inner movement, from certain gesture. It seems Chat there are two cases in painting. One can, as if, paint what has already been painted. Not copy, of course, but refer to culture, to artistic technology. To have this in consciousness, to direct fingers with it. One can also develop from the germ, as if spin from one's own body. This case is exactly like this.Exceptional consistency and persistence must fascinate, being more unusual because shown by such a young person. One can suspect that it is causing equally large loneliness.Loneliness is moved by the fact that he has taken as his place the border which is in a human being, the border me/not me.
Janusz Jaremowicz
The human image is a peculiar place of meeting of what is experienced “from the inside" (we feel the man) with the experience of the world. Everything may happen here, in the highest temperature, with even the greatest tragic tension. Deprived of any similarity Nowotarski's figures, figures almost no longer objective, preserve great dramatic character. They sublime the figure, make it monumental. They are aiming at some glory which they reach. Workshop certainly combined with the application of means both simple and sophisticated makes him the old master. Who if not the old master has drawn the line which we can find in some of his compositions? The line almost invisible and fuli of content, sensitive. Colour sensitivity is also uncommon here. With all its sophistication everything which is important is caught in this painting at the first level of organization, at the root.The point is that painting comes here from the inner movement, from certain gesture. It seems Chat there are two cases in painting. One can, as if, paint what has already been painted. Not copy, of course, but refer to culture, to artistic technology. To have this in consciousness, to direct fingers with it. One can also develop from the germ, as if spin from one's own body. This case is exactly like this.Exceptional consistency and persistence must fascinate, being more unusual because shown by such a young person. One can suspect that it is causing equally large loneliness.Loneliness is moved by the fact that he has taken as his place the border which is in a human being, the border me/not me.
Janusz Jaremowicz