Through her art, Ewa Juszkiewicz reminds us like no other, that even today beauty can be both a blessing and a curse.Īll the reproductions come from the artist, represented by Lokal_30. By freeing the women in her paintings from the rigors of ideal beauty, she gives them a new life in which they are completely autonomous, unlike the women in the original paintings which inspired Juszkiewicz. She creates paintings that refer to well-known early modern works, especially Flemish ones. She chiefly deals with portraits of women. Instead of admiring the perfect beauty of the models, viewing them from the male point of view in which the portrayed women were often objectified and had their role diminished, the depersonalization is in that case empowerment. She paints, draws and creates collages and animations. One finds the portrayed figures disturbing, as they represent something to which we are so unaccustomed.īy removing the faces of the depicted women, she completely changes the perspective with which one looks at the works. Moreover, in all their strangeness they also represent the natural fear of things so alien.
Ewa Juszkiewicz, Sisters, 142x116 cm, oil on canvas, 2014, from a private collection of Adam Klonkowski They contest traditional ideas of beauty and harmony, challenging the boundaries of our acceptance. The deformed figures in her works pose many questions about our human nature and culture. The influence of Flemish art on her is clearly visible both in the colors and composition of the paintings and in the technical mastery that she presents as an artist. Ewa Juszkiewicz, Portrait of Carol Rama, 50x40 cm, oil on canvas, 2014, from a private collection of Weronika Szwarc-Bronikowska Her work is sometimes described as feminist appropriation art, as she reimagines classical portraiture, created in a vast majority by male painters, from a masculine point of view and gives those paintings a new life by detaching them from their original form and meanings. Ewa Juszkiewicz, Maria, 130x100 cm, oil on canvas, 2013, from a private collection of Tomasz Pasiek
She focuses on reinterpreting classic, historic female portraits so that the figures’ heads are replaced by fungi, flowers, bugs, intricate draperies or other surprising, yet disturbing forms. Ewa Juszkiewicz, Portrait of a lady, 2013, 92 x 73 cmĮwa Juszkiewicz (born 1984 in Gdansk, Poland) is an award-winning polish artist, predominantly famous for her paintings. How many portraits of faceless women, with fungi in place of their heads have you ever seen? None?
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