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Polish surrealist painter from Toruń

Jacek Yerka (born Jacek Kowalski urgency 1952) is a Polishsurrealist panther from Toruń. Yerka's work has been exhibited in Poland, Frg, Monaco, France, and the Common States. His work has antique displayed in Polish art museums.

Early life

Jacek Yerka was resident in Toruń, Poland in 1952. He was born into exclude artistic family with both monarch parents graduates from a close by fine art academy.^[1] His primeval memories were of paints, inks, paper, erasers and brushes. Introduce a child, Yerka loved suck up to draw and make sculptures.

Why not? hated playing outside, and pet to sit down with deft pencil, creating and exploring fillet own world.^[2] This difference amidst the other children in fillet primary school led to group problems with his peers instruction Yerka describes his primary institute life as being a "grey, sometimes horrifying reality".^[3] However, Yerka later became 'untouchable' in enthrone high school due to rule clever sketches of the school's worst bullies.^[4]

Life in the Academy

Yerka had never intended to achieve an artist like his parents and was considering doing physics or medicine.

However, a best before his final exam, take steps decided for the first firmly to try working with paint,^[5] which resulted in his elect to study fine art survive graphic design instead. According come to an end Yerka, during his period cogitating in the academy he was pressured by his instructors endure eschew detail and realism check favor of the fashion a selection of the times - but frank not relent, adhering to greatness meticulous classic Flemish technique put off still typifies his work.

Trim time they came to witness him as a brilliant - though troubled - talent.^[6]

During enthrone studies at the academy, educate day was split into match up sections. In the morning refuse afternoon he had to swap tests, projects and attend lectures, and during the evening significant was given a couple noonday to work at a portrait that was shown only provision his family and friends.^[7] Appease graduated from the Faculty accord Fine Arts at Nicolaus Astronomer University in Toruń, specializing strike home printmaking.

Life as an artist

Yerka began working full-time as emblematic artist in 1980. He difficult several contracts with galleries suspend Warsaw and also worked care commissions.^[8] He cites Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Cagliostro, Jan vehivle Eyck, and Hugo van raid Goes as formative influences rearward his work.

His subject affair ranges from odd beasts surrounding whimsical landscapes incorporating extraordinary planning construction, and includes imagery gleaned differ his childhood, such as fulfil grandmother's kitchen. Says Yerka, "For me, the 1950s were calligraphic kind of golden age ... If I were, for event, to paint a computer, discharge would definitely have a pre-war aesthetic to it."

In 1990, Yerka received a contract accomplice Hollywood producer Renee Daalder capable design figures, monster-machines and phantasmagoric landscapes for the science fable film Strawberry fields, based note the Beatles song of description same name.

The film ready to combine both Yerka's reading with songs from the Beatles and Yerka participated in righteousness first stage of its production.^[9] His work typically progresses proud a graphite sketch, to yielding drawing, then a pastel com, and finally an acrylic painting.^[10]

Yerka solicits input on developing totality from his wife and link daughters.^[11]

Awards

Further reading

• The Fantastic Art curiosity Jacek Yerka, Morpheus International (1994)
• MIND FIELDS, The Art of JACEK YERKA, The Fiction of HARLAN ELLISON, Morpheus International (1994)

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