Talented Polish Illustrator Ada Zielińska Blends Contemporary and Retro Styles in Her Art
A Polish illustrator and graphic designer, Ada Zielińska is a talented individual. Using a variety of styles, she combines contemporary aesthetics with the sentimentality of the 1970s and 1980s in her work. Continue reading »
Robotic Renaissance: Polish Artist Agnieszka Pilat’s Innovative Canvas
Agnieszka Pilat, a modern artist, honed her skills at the Academy of Art University and initially focused on portraiture in San Francisco. Despite her technical skill, her work was overlooked in the abstraction-preferred local art scene. However, an encounter with Paul Stein, an art collector and the developer behind Airbnb’s headquarters, opened a new path. Stein requested a painting of a vintage fire alarm bell, which was the start of Pilat’s artistic breakthrough. Continue reading »
This Polish Artist Would Consume Peyote, Cocaine, and Other Intoxicants Before Creating Stunning Pastel Portraits
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Self-Portrait, 1938
In pursuit of Pure Form, the Polish artist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz known as “Witkacy” would consume peyote, cocaine, and other intoxicants before creating pastel portraits. Continue reading »
This Photographer Lets Us See the Less Glamorous Side of His Polished Photos
We look at polished Instagram photos of “perfect” people with admiration, and sometimes we may wish it could be us. It seems like they are living their best lives and it’s all because the grass is greener in life online. Continue reading »
Photographer Captures Beautiful Polish Folklore Costumes In A Painting-Like Style
According to a photographer Anna Węcel: “My name is Anna Węcel, and I show the beautiful Polish folklore in a painterly way. I’m a children’s photographer from Poznań, who created a “Painterly folklore project”. The project aims to show how beautiful, varied, and colorful folk costumes from different regions of Poland are. Continue reading »
Polish Scientist’s Incredible Photographs of Microscopic Creatures
Photographer Igor Siwanowicz took these incredible photographs of tiny creatures. Dr Siwanowicz, a neurobiologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus, Virginia, shows us the wonders of life in kaleidoscopic color. Continue reading »
Polish Artist Turned Local Tram Station Into Floral Museum
A tram stop at Dabrowskiego Square in Łódź, Poland is blossoming with dried flowers, giving pedestrians and commuters a new perspective of the urban space around them. The local student Dominika Cebula was at the origin of the project, that she called “Nostalgia”. The idea is inspired by the traditional flowers market of Dabrowskiego Square. Continue reading »
Belarusian Swimmer In A Potato Field Turned Out To Be A… Polish Model
Not so long ago, there was a lively discussion of a photo shoot in which an elegant girl amuses herself in every possible way on a potato field: she dives into it, arranges a swim, and eventually takes first place and receives a “bulb (belarusian potato) fur” as a gift. Continue reading »
Polish Artist Creates 27 Controversial Illustrations For Political Magazine
Igor Morski is a Polish graphic designer, illustrator and set designer. Presently, he focuses on mixed media graphic art, based manly on photo manipulation, drawing, recently also 3D. Continue reading »
Dead Inside: Fukushima Exclusion Zone Through The Eyes Of Polish Female Photographer
Natalia Sobańska (previously) is a photographer from Poland who traveled to Japan to photograph a deadly Fukushima exclusion zone. Continue reading »
Polish Artist Designs Shoсking Ads Of Major Companies That Show The Harsh Reality
According to Igor Dobrowolski: “My name is Igor Dobrowolski and I’m a Polish artist. Recently, I designed my own version of the real advertisement. Corporations like Nestlé and Unilever profit wildly from single-use plastic packaging while peddling the myth of recycling as a solution. But anyone who has thought seriously about the issue can see that recycling could never handle the amount of plastic surrounding our everyday life.” Continue reading »
Polish Photographer Travels Across The European Landmarks To Capture The Sadeness Beauty Of Abandoned Locations
Amazing abandoned shots by Natalia Sobańska, a talented self-taught photographer, adventurer, and urbex explorer based in Poland. Natalia focuses mainly on abandoned and architecture photography. She travelled all over Poland, Montenegro, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Abkhazia, Georgia, and other countries to capture the beauty of lost places. Continue reading »
“The Call Of The Void”: Polish Photographer Lukasz Palka Captures Streets Of Tokyo
Polish photographer Lukasz Palka explores his fascination with Tokyo in this series of captures taken from different rooftops all over the city. Continue reading »
Roman Opalka – The Polish Artist Who Spent Half His Life Painting From 1 To Infinity
Roman Opalka was a Polish conceptual artist who spent almost his entire career painting a progression of numbers design to symbolize the passing of time. He began with the figure “1” in 1965, and spent every day after that painting about 400 consecutive numbers. At the time of his death, in August, 2011, Opalka’s decades-long count had reached 5,607,249. Continue reading »
Polish Artist Started Painting Just Five Years Ago, Here Are His Oil Paintings With The Particle Of Hope
Igor Dobrowolski (previously featured) is one of the most creative artists in the contemporary art world.
Igor works are in collections of some most famous people and collectors like Channing Tatum, Gigi Hadid, Nicole Scherzinger, and Mohamed Hadid. Over the past five years, his works have been exhibited internationally in Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Warsaw. Continue reading »
Photographer Celebrates 100 Years Of Polish Independence With This Stunning Photoshoot
According to Polish photographer Sebastian Luczywo: “You may not know but for 123 years Poland was wiped out from the map of the world. From 1795 to 1918 we ceased to exist. But not in our hearts and minds. Partitioned between Austria, Russia and Prussia we always dreamed that one day we would regain our independence. Continue reading »
Superb Vector Illustrations By The Polish Artist Krzysztof Nowak
The Polish artist Krzysztof Nowak is a real master of vector illustration and he shows his skills to us through is high quality portfolio. The details are remarkable, the compositions are really dynamic and the touch of humor he sometimes brings to his works perfectly works. Continue reading »
Griffin Microsheen Used To Have Some Interesting Shoe Polish Ads In The 1950s
The 1950s were an innocent time in America as far as mainstream advertising went. But one campaign was quite racy. The Griffin Microsheen ads were for men’s shoe polish. But nary a man’s face and rarely a man’s foot ever made an appearance in the campaign. All the ads are from the mid- to late-1950s. Continue reading »
The Unique Glitch Art And Overflowing Dark Creativity By The Polish Artist Hubert Solczyński
Born in 1986 in Poland, Hubert Solczyński was confronted with the artistic world at a very young age. He worked for 15 years behind the stage like his father before him (whom he followed from performance to performance from a very young age). Continue reading »
Fully Tattooed, This Young Polish Man Is A Real-Life White Walker
With his body 90% tattooed in gray, including his eyes, and a white dyed beard, Adam Curlykale has become a true White Walker, thanks to an impressive series of body modifications. Continue reading »
Polish Street Artist Denounces The Misery Of Fashion With Striking Billboards
With a series of striking fake billboards, the Polish artist Igor Dobrowolski attacks the fashion and ready-to-wear industry by revealing the working conditions behind the famous brands. The artist reminds us that three of the four biggest tragedies in the history of fashion took place in Bangladesh in 2013, such as the collapse of the factory that killed 1134 people. Continue reading »