- Jacek Yerka
Jacek Yerka (born 1952) is a Polish surreal artist and painter from
Toruń .Life and work
Yerka studied art for a short time at University, but then learnt from direct study of Northern European masters, the Van Eycks, Dierck Bouts, Robert Campin, Bosch, and surrealists such as Magritte.
Yerka said:
His paintings are acrylic on canvas and carefully rendered, using images from his childhood, including his grandmother's kitchen. He also includes odd beasts and whimsical landscapes. He comments, "For me, the 1950s were a kind of Golden Age ... If I were, for instance, to paint a computer, it would definitely have a pre-war aesthetic to it." Yerka's work has been exhibited in Poland, Germany, Monaco, France, and the United States. His works are also in Polish art museums. Yerka's work can be seen in "
Mind Fields ", a book in whichHarlan Ellison has provided narration for each of Yerka's selected pieces. ["Mind Fields: The Art of Jacek Yerka : The Fiction of Harlan Ellison", Morpheus International (1993), ISBN 0962344796 - reviewed by Robert K.J. Killheffer, "At play in the fields of the weird - surrealist painter Jacek Yerka", in Omni magazine, Dec 1993 ]Further reading
* "The Fantastic Art of Jacek Yerka", Morpheus International (1994)
Notes
External links
* [http://yerka.pl/ Artist's homepage]
* [http://beinart.org/artists/jacek-yerka/ Jacek Yerka - Fantastic Art Collective]
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