format: 27x39cm, watercolor, ink, paper, signed Rajmund Ziemski and dated 2.V.62
Studied painting from 1949 to 1955 under Artur Nacht-Samborski at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In his graduating year, he participated in the National Exhibition of Young Visual Arts at the Warsaw Arsenal. Since 1958, he taught at his alma mater, running a painting studio there, one of the most popular among students as a graduation studio. The professor who runs it is also an artistic authority, one of the most prominent representatives of the current of non-geometric abstraction in Polish postwar painting. Beginning in the early 1960s, Ziemski's paintings took on the characteristic shape of an elongated rectangle, with allusive fields of color and texture spreading out in its field like stretched, dramatic sheets. They bore titles suggesting connections with nature, but the painter's interest in color and matter, treated autonomously, in isolation from any suggestion of subject matter, took the upper hand. He later abandoned this practice in favor of further developing his color attempts, going in the direction of sharp contrasts and sometimes cacophonous juxtapositions. He remains with the method of titling and labeling his works, which was established back in the 1960s.
