Przekroczyć ut pictura poesis. Wizualizacje frazeologizmów i metafory w malarstwie Bronisława Linkego

In his searches for creative inspiration, Bronisław Linke (1906-1962) also made use of phrasal forms. There thus arose many works composed in the main as propaganda material for the Polish communist system of the 1950s. The artist made use of the picture contained in the ‘linguistic tissue’ (author’s terminology) of phraseology in his bid to almost literally ‘render’ it into image form by making it visible to the language of art. A numerous group of drawings intended to unmask the true character hidden behind the exterior image thus arose. Linke’s paintings are themselves dominated by language. The works of the artist under examination demonstrate the harsh confrontation between the word and the painting was effaced. Linke in his creative work ignored the crossover from word to picture and back again, since the borderline between them was from his perspective an illusion