Jan TARASIN (1926 - 2009), Miner, 1956

woodcut, paper, 20 x 23 cm in light passe - partout - 31 x 34 cm
Jan Tarasin (born September 11, 1926 in Kalisz, died August 8, 2009 in Warsaw) - Polish painter, graphic artist, draughtsman, photographer, essayist, educator, professor and rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (1946-1951) in the painting studios of Prof. Zygmunt Rudnicki, Zbigniew Pronaszko and Wacław Taranczewski and in the graphic arts studios of Prof. Andrzej Jurkiewicz and Konrad Srzednicki.
In 1967 he moved to Warsaw. He lived in Mokotow at 4/59 Dolna St. He took up teaching work again in 1974, taking up the Painting Studio at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. In 1985 he was appointed associate professor. In 1987, he became rector of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, a position he held until 1990[4][5]. Member of the "Cracow Group" (since 1962). In 1974-1982 he published author's Notebooks with serigraphs and texts. He practiced painting, printmaking (lithography, serigraphy) and applied graphics (poster), as well as theoretical reflection on art. He became famous for his poster Bumelant (1952), but later more avant-garde projects took the place of social themes in his work. Today, his best-known works are a series of canvases in which he presented objects as signs and symbols of supramaterial meanings.