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ANNA LISCAR. PAINTED ON GLASS AND PAPER

  

 

 

July 11 – September 30, 2012
 
The Museum of the Zakopane Style at Koliba villa
Zakopane, ul. Kościeliska 18
 
The exhibition showcases works by Anna Liscar from Zakopane – glass paintings featuring religious scenes and scenes from brigands’ life as well as landscapes using various techniques (gouache, tempera, watercolour, oil). All works come from years 1985-2012. The landscapes have been publicly displayed for the first time.

 

Anna Liscar was born and has spent much of her life in Zakopane. She graduated from the faculty of Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. From 1974 to 1979 she worked at Zakopane’s Municipal Library and from 1980 to 2009 in the library and the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane. In addition to being a librarian she was an editor of the museum’s publications. She was also the secretary of the Tatra Museum Society where she edited the society’s publications.

The Tatra Museum’s collection of antique glass paintings inspired Anna Liscar in 1985 to start learning to paint on glass under the direction of Helena Średniawa, an art historian, and Eugeniusz Rodzik, an artist and head of the Tatra Museum’s conservation department. Since 1988 her work has featured in numerous exhibitions of glass paintings, including several individual exhibitions. Since the 1990s her works have been displayed at “Yam” Gallery and the “House of the Doctor” Gallery of Contemporary Art in Zakopane. For the last few years she has participated in art fairs, organized by the Municipal Gallery of Art in Zakopane and in exhibitions of glass paintings in the Gallery of Religious Folk Art at the Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Jaszczurówka, Zakopane.

Anna Liscar bases her work on traditional techniques. The subject matter for her art is drawn from the Bible, particularly the New Testament, and from antique glass paintings. She transforms well-known iconographic images  in her own individual way. Colour plays a major  role in her paintings. She uses a palette of warm, muted colours, which she mixes directly on a pane of glass and applies them in spots and by layers, with the darkest colours at the base and the lightest on top. The resulting image is a play of colourful patches which blur and, combined with a delicate ink drawing, imparts an extraordinary lightness.

Anna Liscar also paints landscapes using various techniques (gouache, tempera, watercolour, oil). These works are spontaneous responses to her fascination with nature, and they are her attempt to present the landscapes of the Tatras, peatlands of the Orava region, the Masurian Lakes and the Baltic Sea near Sopot. This is the first time that Anna Liscar’s landscapes have been publicly displayed.

 
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 


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