Visitors to Kraków can see a large collection Witkacy’s wacked-out paintings on the top floor of the National Museum. But in a scene that wouldn’t have been amiss in one of his satires, it eventually emerged that bungling officials had buried the wrong corpse – the subject at the centre of the excellent Polish film ‘Mystyfikacja’ (available with English subtitles). Originally buried in a far-flung corner of the Ukraine, Witkacy’s body was returned to Zakopane in 1988. When the Red Army crossed into Poland on September 17, 1939, sensing the end of civilisation, Witkacy took a suicidal dosage of drugs, ending his life the next day. 1925 Witkiewicz zrezygnowa zupenie z malarstwa olejnego, nawizujcego do stylu formistów, uwaajc, e malarstwo nie jest ju w stanie wyraa Czystej Formy, pierwotnego skadnika sztuki odwoujcego si bezporednio do wraliwoci odbiorcy i jego uczu metafizycznych. He experimented with all forms of modern art, started his own theatre company in Zakopane (an hour south of Kraków) and expanded on his philosophical theories.Ī rabid anti-communist, Witkacy was hell-bent on proving that an individual’s aims would always be different from that of society and state. Twisted portraits of his high-society friends (heads springing from penises, beastly animal shapes flying in the background) became his trademark. As he plunged into heavy spells of morphine, cocaine and peyote abuse his paintings became all the more inspired.
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