E-mail: bullsik@wp.pl
Location: Poland
Specialty: Illustrator
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Biography
| "His half-traditional and half-digital method transgresses boundaries, allowing viewers to muse." Michal Szyksznian is an artist at the dawn of his own creative career. He shares his time between dedications for the arts with studying philosophy. His thoughtful nature is not lost on his attitudes towards his own artistic voice nor his rationality for never participating in higher art education, after five years spent at fine-art school. Szyksznian explains: "If it comes to education, I hardly see myself studying any kind of art. It's because I have a feeling that art school can take all of your creative energy. At the end you don't feel desire to draw for your pleasure, because all you do is for school. When your hobby becomes a duty, it starts to be tiring or even boring." He adds: "I think it's also a matter of your personality. I'm self-taught and I'm nervous every time I'm forced to listen to somebody's advice. I have a need to discover things by myself." This indulgence in self-expression certainly seeps through to Szyksznian's rich topics and sensational compositions. Manifesting popular culture icons with academic realism, his work is self-described as '  ostmodern popculturism': "It's half-classy and half-kitschy, half-realistic and half-cartoon. It comes from cartoons and comic books, but it's heading towards academic realism and vice versa. I don't want to become a realist painter, though. I see no purpose in realism because mankind has already invented photography. I love contours and the texture of pencils - mostly because it provides the unreal aura to my illustrations."- An excerpt from the article written by Adam Smith and published in Advanced Photoshop #41 (March 2008) |
Education
- 1998-2003 - High School of Fine Arts in Szczecin (Poland); 2003-2008 - studying Philosophy at Uniwersytet Szczecinski (Poland);
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