Beata Murawska: Essays
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In the Studio
Murawska is the best solution for depression or a relationship crisis. She’s an artist riding the wave of sensuality. Her art is a pure affirmation of life, primal nakedness and eroticism untainted by civilisation. Each pair of lovers resembles Adam and Eve, each tulip field – the Garden of Eden. A painting instead of an apple? The serpent of temptation has abandoned his role.
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The Divine Flower
Tulip used to be a flower triggering big passions, and it was most willingly portrayed in visual art. Tulip as the subject of painting was born almost simultaneously with a delight for the plant itself. Wild tulips – the ancestors of those innumerable garden varieties of today – appear on the vast areas of the Orient: from Turkey, through Armenia, Turkmenia, up to Pamir and Tien Shan mountains.
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A tulip-like organ: calyx, the omnivorous creature
A tulip-like organ: calyx, the omnivorous creature
Unclenched, unseemly
Deckled and cool in the outside
Compact and warm inside
Don’t you even dare touch in there!
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Dreams, desires...
When I watch Beata Murawska's drawings, my memory suggests to me, as a background image, the Sleeping Gypsy by Henri ''Publican' Rousseau, Giorgione's, Venus Asleep, or the Venus with a necklace by Maillol. Venus - that Old-Italian goddess of spring and gardens, who was later on to be identified with the Greek Aphrodite; the one whose cult got Hellenised, the goddess of spring and vegetation being turned into the one of love.
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The world like a flower
Flowers have remained. At an earlier stage, there were also other themes of Beata Murawska's paintings, yet in time, they have disappeared, and flowers have taken precedence. Their scales are different; sometimes, their sizes can be plainly monstrous, but they do not trigger panic: on the contrary, they seem to be attracting into the depths of the paintings, particularly when the latter's format is so large.
