Yerka biography

Jacek Yerka (born Jacek Kowalski in 1952) is a Polish surrealist painter from Toruń.
Born in Poland in 1952, Jacek yerka studied fine art and graphics prior to becoming a full-time artist in 1980.While at university, Yerka resisted the.
Jacek Yerka is a Polish surrealist painter from Toruń.

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Jacek Yerka

Born	1952 Toruń, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Education	Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Field	Painting
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Jacek Yerka is a surrealist who paints nature and material things that we see every day and produces images of them in a surprising way. Expressing his own reality of the imagination has won Yerka prestigious awards and honors in his native Poland, as well as exposure across the world. His paintings encourage the mind to drift to another place, and to imagine the impossible. Since 1980, he has been painting exclusively, completing commissioned works, as well as cooperating with several art galleries in Warsaw.

Influences in Art

Jacek was born in Torun, Northern Poland, and both his mother and father were students of the local Fine Arts Academy. His earliest memories are of the smell of paints, which were a part of his childhood. His father was the source of imaginative ideas, and his mother made them work through artistic means. Yerka’s paternal grandmother was his source of play and awareness of na

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Jacek Jierka (Kowalski, Jacek Yerka, born in 1952 in the city of Torun, Northern Poland) - the famous modern Polish surrealist artist, who also belongs to the genres of fiction and fantasy.

Features of creativity: The basis for many of the artist's paintings are the pastoral landscapes, the medieval architecture of Northern Poland and the home interior of the 1950s and 1960s - the familiar surroundings inspire the master to rethink reality. In his work, the author combines the accuracy of the drawings of the Flemish masters (Hieronymus Bosch, Jan van Eyck, Peter Bruegel) and the surrealist fantasy of surrealists (Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte). As a result, the author's style has developed, conquering the audience: the beauty and the abundance of details, the techniques of the 50s of the twentieth century, animals, nature, architecture, home interiors ... And it all adds up to a three-dimensional picture with an obligatory author's riddle.

Work examples:"Morning of the hunter", "Communal Paradise", "Triptych. Tower of Babel.

Jacek Jörka, a hereditary artist, was educated at the

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Jacek Yerka biography

Surreal painter Jacek Yerka was born in a small city in Northern Poland in the early 1950s. His developing years were spent playing amidst the wonderfully preserved architecture of medieval Europe, as his hometown was spared much of the bombing that beset Poland during the war. It is this environment of reddish brown brickwork that immediately calls to mind the works of Bosch and Brueghel, whose palette Yerka shares.

Yerka studied art at University, before rebelling against the trend to paint with less attention to realism and detail. Instead, he found his education studying the works of the Northern European masters like the Van Eycks, Dierck Bouts, Robert Campin, Bosch, and surrealists such as Magritte.

"I did my first painting of my life a year before going to college, where I began studying graphics. My instructors always tried to get me to paint in the more contemporary abstract style, amd move away from my fascination with realism. I saw this as an attempt to stifle my own creative style and steadfastly refused to fall in line. Eventually, my teache