Rebellion against authority and formalism. An attempt at interpreting the work of the group “Wprost” / Summary in English p.427-430.
This dissertation is devoted to the output of the Kraków-based art group “Wprost” [“Directly”], active in the years 1966–1986. Its members were Maciej Bieniasz, Zbylut Grzywacz, Barbara Skąpska, Leszek Sobocki and Jacek Waltoś. The group’s recuperation of figurative art in the mid-1960s broke the dominance of abstract poetics that reigned in Poland from 1956. At the same time, the artists associated with this group intensively explored the representation of human figures, independently developing a new quality in figurative art, as a result of which the group’s members are acknowledged today as pioneers of new figurative art in Poland.