The Art of Tomasz Rut: Park West Gallery Artist Series

“Victoris” by Tomasz Rut | Park West Gallery

The Park West Gallery Artist Video Series presents: Tomasz Rut
Tomasz Rut‘s masterful illusionary images, both in scale and splendor, evoke the harmony and form of the master painters, including the flamboyance of Rubens, the finesse of Caravaggio, and the emotion of Michelangelo. Rut’s imaginary figures-centaurs, fauns, muses, and winged creatures-colorfully burst from the canvas with the grandiosity of Olympian Gods in active and dramatic poses.

In the following Park West Gallery exclusive, Tomasz Rut’s work is explored and explained. Narration by Park West Gallery Director, Morris Shapiro.

[After you watch the video, be sure to visit the Park West Gallery - Tomasz Rut website to learn more about the artist.]

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“There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are very, very serious, and what comes out of it is things that are quite friendly, gay, and sometimes even amusing. [Chaim] Soutine tried to work like Rembrandt, and yet there is nothing of Rembrandt in his pictures.” – Yaacov Agam

“Let’s go back to the things that really influence me, things that have been tremendously important to my eyes and my heart. Take the drawings of Michelangelo, they have a quality which simply makes my stomach knot up. They had this effect as a child, when I first saw them in books. And they still do now for the drawing is technically so good.” – Roy Fairchild

“…first and foremost Picasso [influenced me] with his exuberant structures and figures, and also the amazing Matisse with his rainbow of colors. I became familiar with these two artists through books I read in Brazil. When I moved to the United States, I was introduced to Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and the fantastic Roy Lichtenstein.” – Romero Britto

“Frankly, if Picasso himself wanted to teach me, I don’t think I would have wanted to study with him because I didn’t want to be a little Picasso. I wanted to fail or succeed strictly on my own terms. If you want to find that uniqueness in your work, you have to invent a way of expressing it; you have to find out how to do it. You invent how to do it.” – Robert Kipniss

“Some people adore Picasso, some hate him. Some swear by Pollack, and some say all art is dead besides Michelangelo. But whatever the form art manifests itself in, it is quality of what it communicates that gives art its impact. I look for inspiration in classical art. My paintings give people the ability to learn, respond, and feel comfortable with the classics.” – Tomasz Rut

 

Seeking Inspiration in the Humanistic Tradition of Classical Art

“I look for inspiration in the humanistic tradition of classical art. My canvases express the entire spectrum of human emotions from exhilaration and cheerfulness to contentment, melancholy, pain, and agony.”  — Tomasz Rut

Tomasz Rut’s masterful illusionary images, both in scale and splendor, evoke the harmony and form of master painters, including the flamboyance of Rubens, the finesse of Caravaggio, and the emotion of Michelangelo. Rut’s imaginary figures – centaurs, fauns, muses, and winged creatures – colorfully burst from the canvas with the grandiosity of Olympian Gods in active and dramatic poses.

Encouraged by his mother, a painter herself, as a child Rut was introduced to the Pompeiien Frescos and the magnificence of the Renaissance and the Baroque, which today inspire his stunning oils on canvas, sweeping murals and graphic works.

“My paintings give people the ability to learn, respond, and feel comfortable with the classics,” Rut says. “This gives me enough satisfaction to keep working for a lifetime”…Read more

View selections from the Tomasz Rut collection available at Park West Gallery