Janina Bobinska-Paszkowska, AGE, ca. 1911

71,2 x 71,0 cm - oil, canvas

Signed l.d.: Janina Bobinska Paszkowska

The featured painting On the Road is an example of the artist's characteristic style - synthetic in form, yet poetic in expression. The composition depicts the Madonna and Child during their escape to Egypt. The figures are shown in a landscape with decoratively treated vegetation and intensely saturated colors. Characteristic of the artist are the ornamental patterns on the Madonna's cloak. Bobinska-Paszkowska used a simplified, flat form, in which linearity and decorativeness played an important role. She was close to the art of the Polish Formists, as well as European symbolic and stylized tendencies, including in the spirit of "Art Nouveau" ornamentalism. Her works are characterized by a desire to combine the painting of Renaissance masters with contemporary form.

The painting On the Road remains a testament to Bobinska-Paszkowska's artistic language - combining a lyrical narrative with attention to color and ornamental detail. As the artist herself said: painting is for me first and foremost music! Music without dissonance. I strive for serene, perpetual harmony.

Her contemporary critic, using the initials K.L. wrote: P[ani] Bobinska-Paszkowska paints with the now fashionable manjer of primitivism, and since she has an outstanding decorative sense, she creates graceful works. ("National Thought. A biweekly devoted to Polish culture," Warsaw, 15 I 1927, p. 38)



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Janina Bobinska-Paszkowska (Warsaw 1884 - Warsaw 1973) Painter. Born 14.III.1884 Warsaw. Studies: 1904-00 SSP Warsaw (K. Krzyzanowski): 1908-10 Free Academy, Paris. Membership: since 1912 TPSP: TZSP: 1921-24 Art of Podhale group"; Block Zaw. Artystów Plastyków, "Rhythm" group; Internationale Stow. of Working Women; Société int. des Artistes, Paris. Travels: 1908-10 France, 1911 Germany, Austria. Creativity and activities: easel painting (oil, watercolor) - portrait, portrait miniature, landscape, still life; wall painting (polychrome). 1912-19 taught drawing in secondary schools in Warsaw and Czestochowa: 1920-24 org. of regional art studio of "Podhale Art" group, Zakopane. Examples of works: 1912-14 design and realization (with J. Brzezinski) of polychromy of k. in Nowo-Radomsk; painting - 1921, Summer"; 1927-25 "Girl with goat", "Game",,, Portrait of Mrs. L.", "Joy of life"; 1938, Son's bath", "Fishermen from Gdynia"; series of miniatures. Individual exhibitions: including 1910 Salon d'Automne, Paris; 1912, 1927, 1931 TZSP 1925 Exhib. Miniatures and paintings, Lewicki Salon. Group exhibitions: 1908 Salon d'Automne, Paris 1913, 1931 TZSP: 1921 PWK, Poznań; 1924 Exhibition. Group, "Podhale Art," Zakopane; 1925 TZSP Autumn Exhibition, Art Club, Warsaw: 1929 PWK Poznań: 1931 TZSP November Salon, Warsaw 1938 Miedzyn. Exhibition. Miniatures, Pavilion of Art, Paris 1946 Spring Salon, Muz. Nar.; 1956 | National Exhibition. Graph. Artist. I Rys., Zachęta; 1958, 1959, 1962 Exhib. Groups, "Zachęta", PW, Lodz, Czestochowa 1962 IX OW ZPAP, Zachęta. Awards: 1904 award (in team) of the competition for the design of polychrome k. in Nowo-Radomsk; 1st award of the International. Konk. Société des Atristes, Paris; 1928 Hon. Distinction of the TZSP; 1937 2nd prize of the Wyst. Maritime; 1938 Silver Medal of the TZSP; award of the Maritime League Wyst. Maritime Sketches; 1958 ZPAP award for 50 years of artistic work. Decorations: 1955 Silver Cross of Merit. Collections: mus. Hist., Cracow; private collections in France, USA, W. Britain, Australia. The artist was a resident of Zoliborz Oficerski in Warsaw.

ZPAP Artists' Dictionary 1945 - 1970 ZPAP Warsaw District Warsaw 1972.