Stranger

Wiesław Szamborski

  • type of object: painting
  • date: 1985
  • material/technique: acrylic and oil on canvas
  • dimensions: 100 x 120 cm
  • inventory No.: M-414
  • image licensed under: CC BY-SA

The main character of the painting is a large German shepherd majestically strolling along a beach. At the edge of the water stands a figure staring into the depths of the sea, in a beach costume, a towel draped over its shoulders. The banal summer seascape has a rather careless composition, the source of which may be a hastily taken photograph immortalising the lonely ‘stranger’. The convention adopted by Szamborski, encompassing not only the method of photographic framing, but also colour, handling of colour and field, situates the painting in the trend of hyperrealism.

Michał Jachuła

translated by Paulina Bożek

Image published as part of the Operational Programme Digital Poland: Open Zachęta financed by European Funds

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  • Zdjęcie pracy We Are Posing
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  • Zdjęcie pracy Light Corner
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  • Zdjęcie pracy Portrait Study
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  • Zdjęcie pracy Self-Portrait I
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  • Zdjęcie pracy Self-Portrait II
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  • Zdjęcie pracy Self-Portrait III
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