Tomasz MASIONEK, They were and all went proud....

150x90,oil on canvas, 2022

B. 1994, Lubliniec

In 2019, he defended his diploma in easel painting at the Faculty of Art at Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, earning the title of Master of Arts. Both the first and second diploma dealt with the subject of the human face and emotions. The overscaled portraits were created using putty techniques with multiple colors to highlight specific emotions. Fascinated by the human soul, the artist sought a way to capture it in his paintings with both color, format and form.

In addition to the obvious fascination with portraiture, frequent inspirations include architecture and historical events, particularly war scenes. The latest series of paintings directly addresses the latter. "Reinterpretations" is a series of large-format works in which the artist focuses his attention on rendering the movement and emotions accompanying war, battle. To do this, he reaches for color and spatula, creating a kind of illusion, consisting in capturing the first impression. In between painting large formats, he likes to experiment, combining various techniques, i.e. drawing, collage, painting.

He created a formula of painting derived from traditional impressionism based on the synthesis of form and the original combination of figurative art and abstraction. A contemporary representative of post-capitalism. In many works, one can significantly see the tendency of the color black which plays the role of separating the color and highlighting the dominant. The artist acquired an inclination towards such solutions during his classes at the Faculty of Graphic Arts. Led at the time by Professor Grzegorz Banaszkiewicz, he began to break the traditional concept of painting according to his artistic activities.

Exhibitions:
2022
Exhibition of Painting, Regional Museum, Jawor.
2021
Exhibition of Finalists, PROMOTIONS 30, Art Gallery, Legnica.
Festival of High Art, , "Slowly Me", Steel Angels, Bytom
2020
Small Festival of High Art, Steel Angels, Bytom
Individual Painting Exhibition, Black Wolf Coffee, Katowice.
Fraternal Confrontations, Zinc Rolling Mill Museum, Katowice.
2019
Portrait, Wilson Shaft Gallery, Katowice
Painting Exhibition, MDK, Częstochowa
She sees, He sees, Muse Gallery, Sosnowiec
2018
Exhibition 125, series of exhibitions in Silesia
Handicraft Fair, MDK, Lubliniec
2017
Exhibition of Painting, MDK, Lubliniec
2016
Drawing artists, Conductor House, Częstochowa
Handicraft Fair, MDK, Lubliniec
2015
Painters II, Conductor House, Częstochowa
2012
Painting Exhibition, POP-ART, Częstochowa
2011
Young Artists, Black Cat Studio, Czestochowa.

Participation in competitions:
- V Piotrowskie Biennale of Art, Piotrkow Trybunalski, 2019
- Auż, Fork, Norblin Factory Foundation, Warsaw, 2020
- #CDPRGEAR!, 2020
- Polish Cultural Underground, 2020
- Eastern Art Salon 26 in Lublin, ZPAP, 2020
- Dystans Art Competition: Painting and Sculpture, Kraków, 2020
- Work of the Year 2019, ZPAP Katowice, 2020
- Lab 17, Malamegi Lab, 2020