The artist Stanislav Poznański was born in 1909 in Warsaw. He grew up in the Polish capital and lived there almost his entire life...
The most extensive subgroup of Poznansky's works was created during his several-week visit to Uzbekistan in 1963. They were created in a style known as "travel magazine" and have a certain similarity with the artist's previous works. Primarily these were lipid (precise) rough sketches and watercolors, executed in quick and delicate paints, reflecting the artist's impressions and distance from the outside world. Many of them served as the basis for new, more complex oil paintings created by the artist upon his return home. However, despite this, some of his works, including sketches of Uzbekistan, were never used in the creation of new works and therefore retained their incompleteness.
To convey a broader understanding to the viewers, Poznansky often depicted Uzbek cities at a bird's-eye view. In some works, the rectangular shapes of suburban houses are transformed into geometric shapes and planes. Some works are even more abstract in terms of style. When the artist depicts the cities of Uzbekistan, he often depicts crowded narrow streets diagonally. Thus, small panoramas of the city become a vivid representation of the city landscape, filled with schematically depicted human figures. The composition at the same time resembles an enlarged image, a stop-frame, directed at a certain place. Light was undoubtedly his achievement, since most of his travels took place in autumn, when the activity of colors was less intense.
Usually, Poznansky was not interested in human figures during his travels in painting. But Uzbekistan was an exception. When the artist was in the country, he probably created many watercolor sketches, admiring the richness and exoticism of the costumes here, the diversity of human categories. Women wrapped in orange from head to toe, men in bright traditional robes - these are not all the bright spots in the paintings.
Stanislav Poznansky died in 1996. His works, created during his trip to Uzbekistan, were exhibited in 1970 and in 2006 at a museum in Warsaw.