Tomasz
Rut...
"I look for inspiration in the humanistic tradition of classical
art. My canvases express the entire spectrum of human emotions from
exhilaration and cheerfulness to contentment, melancholy, pain, and
agony," explains Rut (pronounced root), who now resides in Palm
Beach, Florida.
Encouraged by his mother, a painter herself,
as a child Rut was introduced to the Pompeiien Frescos and the magnificence
of the Renaissance and the Baroque, which today inspire his stunning
oil on canvases and sweeping murals. These masterful illusionary works,
both in scale and splendor, evoke the harmony and form of the master
painters, including the flamboyance of Rubens, the finesse of Caravaggio,
and the emotion of Michelangelo. Rut’s imaginary figures - centaurs,
fauns, muses, and winged creatures - colorfully burst from the canvas
with the grandiosity of Olympian Gods in active and dramatic poses.
"Rut’s mural size paintings
are contemporary conversions of the classical vocabulary variously continued
by Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and Rubens," explains Dorothy
Keane-White, Art Curator & Director for Northwood University. "In
making them he returns us to antiquity by a double detour. First, he
sets in motion the charming unreal apparatus of the Quattrocento mise-en-scene,
and more importantly its heroic nudity, vigorous modeling, expressive
anatomic structure, powerful movement and fascinating physiognomy. Tinged
with sadness, his super-human youths play once more on Arcadian pipes
- a motif also reprised by Matisse. Alternatively, he offers us impossible
elicite, graceful females - ‘still unravished bride(s) of quietness’
- delimiting them with sylvan togas and braided tresses. Nor does he
leave rearing steeds, which in the grand manner represent humanity’s
turbulent passions."
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