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Stanis³awa Szukalskiego


za zgod± Polish Museum of America,
webmaster: Iwona Szymañska

 

I desired, when very young, to learn anatomy without the use of models. I would develop the skill of visualizing things prior to their making and I would evoke my imagination. Thus I would be able to recall at will anything from memory. I advised myself to do this so that I might attain mastery of my profession.
More than the professional skill of imagining, one must have fantasy. Fantasy, or if one prefers, inventiveness, is the core of all creativeness, but no one can have fantasy without first developing imagination. In fantasy lies inspiration. Imagination is the skill, the ease of visualizing objects, figures, etc., while fantasy is the virtuosity in the variation on these themes. Trained imagination makes creative improvisation possible.
Somehow from the beginning I felt that knowing a given skill is not enough, but that the manner in which we learn is of prime importance. A technique like anatomy or perspective learned from models and books is a dead skill just as is the theoretic learning from books of how to be physically strong. Strength of muscles is developed by lifting weights and by exercise, and creativeness in the arts is developed simply by doing, prior to knowing the professional laws and tricks. To be creative is to try being creative from the very start by doing things from memory.

Stanislaw Szukalski

Poni¿sze prace pochodz± z lat 1913-1930. Fotografowa³ i opisa³ je sam artysta.

Popiersie Davida, fragment, 1914 Jednoreki me¿czyzna na wietrze, 1914 Bound Spring, 1916 Labor, 1920 Sleep, fragment, 1914 Frozen Youth, 1920 Twilight, 1915 Twilight, fragment - foot, 1915 Fall of Man, 1920 Aesop, 1920 Victor Hugo, 1917 A Stuttering Philosopher, 1915 A Stuttering Philosopher, fragment, 1915 The Orator, 1913 The Orator, 1913 Annuciation, artist in background, 1916 Annuciation, fragment, 1916 The Heavenly Nurse, 1922 The grain Merchant, 1915 The lost tune, fragment, 1915 The lost tune, fragment, 1915 The lost tune, fragment, 1915 Law, 1916 Defense, 1916 Fligh of the Emigrants, 1921 Cynic, 1914 Struggle, 1923 Struggle, fragment, 1923 Atlantea, fragment, 1919 Exhibition, location unknown, 1930 Krak, 1924 A portret of Van Den Bergen, 1921 Echo, 1923 Echo, fragment, 1923 Mickiewicz, 1926 Mickiewicz, fragment, 1926 An animal licking out a splinter, 1927 Boleslaw the Brave, 1928 Boleslaw the Brave, fragment, 1928 Boleslaw the Brave, 1928 The Prophet, 1920 Cecora, 1927 Awakening, 1927