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 | | The most pervasive - and perhaps because of that the most controversial - tradition in Polish art, that of the colourists, was also subjected, in the work of the succeeding generations of artists, not so much to alteration as to a kind of final acceptance. |
 | | The painting of the Polish colourists of the twenty inter-war years, members of the Paris Committee (such as Jan Cybis, Jozef Czapski, Piotr Potworowski, Artur Nacht-Samborski, Zygmunt Waliszewski) who were pupils of Pierre Bonnard and the École de Paris, were condemned even before the war for their aestheticism, escapism and ostentatious pictorialism. |
 | | The painterly "resolution" of a canvas as the Polish colourists' main artistic aim, with no consideration of its political or social context, their faith in an eternal art and its changeless questions, have proved to be surprisingly relevant, dramatically "ethical" and, indeed, political. |
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