Tomasz MASIONEK, Returns are sometimes peculiar

oil, canvas, 90 x 140 cm, 2024, signed p.d.: T Masionek. Author's description on the back: "Tomasz Masionek 2024".

Painter, illustrator, Master of Fine Arts. In 2019 he defended his diploma at the Faculty of Art at Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa. Before deciding to go to college, he graduated from a construction technical school, so he touches on architecture in his drawings. He completed his diploma Post of Warriors - an analysis of a male portrait in the studio with Bartosz Frączek, PhD. "Post of Warriors" is a series of paintings in which the painter tries to show the "spirit" of masculinity and savagery from the old days, by painting portraits of rogues, warriors and kings. The paintings were repainted three or four times at a time until the "intended" effect was finally visible. The portraits are painted with oil paint using spatula, and a brush was used to emphasize details such eyes and lips. He also often reaches for such a form of self-expression as drawing. He analyzes architecture through lines and dashes using markers and pencil.