„Vers à l’austère”. Sztuka peryferyjna a rytm i forma w malarstwie formistów polskich

Iwona Mikołajczyk’s article “Vers a l austere” Peripheral Art and the Rhythm and Form in Polish Adherents of Formalism Painting discusses Polish avant-garde chosen works from the point of view of the painters’ attitude to the peripheral culture: folkloristic, fair and popular. Using secondary modelling signs of the determinate kind, Tymon Niesiołowski, Eugeniusz Zak, Tytus Czyżewski and Andrzej Pronaszko transposed its esthetical value, artistic means and motives to their own paintings connecting them with avant-garde techniques. Condensing various creative techniques within one work they reached the new formal quali-ties, the severe and clean construction based on the rhythm and means of expres-sion. Those visual values distinguish their creativeness from the West-European avant-garde achievements.