Group Wprost


Wprost Group - Krakow artistic group founded in 1966. In the same year the first joint exhibition took place. Characteristic for the early work of its members was the establishment of the brutal expressionism of Andrzej Wróblewski.

The group was founded by the graduates of the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow: Maciej Bieniasz, Zbylut Grzywacz, Leszek Sobocki, Jacek Waltoś and Barbara Skąpska (who stopped participating in group exhibitions).

During his debut in the so-called. The Wyspiański Theater in the Palace of Arts, the Wprost group declared: We want to express straightforwardly, not to overlook the many possibilities in art: themes, symbols, meaningful forms, material used for content. Any useful method and material for expression is important to the imagination, that is, to reveal the shape of the experience. We show what we do, our workshop, to reveal thoughts and ideas in its immediate, often first, character.

The group's activity was against the dominant abstract art in Poland, which developed primarily formal issues, and the content itself was left in the background. Young painters, wishing to express "straight", were in favor of figurative, anti-aesthetic and anti-formalism. In their works they dealt with social, political and existential issues. Bibliography

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