| Józef
Sławiński,
born in 1905 in Poland and trained there and in Italy as a
muralist, first came toWestern New York on a visit in 1961-63.
He returned in 1964 and lived and worked in the Buffalo Niagara
area until his death in 1983. Sławiński, a
remarkably gifted artist whose work has been compared to such
great Mexican muralists asDiego Rivera,worked in a variety of
media, including fresco, hammered copper, scratched tempera,
and wrought iron, but his favorite medium was sgraffito,
a subtractive technique involving two or more layers of cement
which need to beworked on while still wet. Sławiński
extended the technique to four layers of colored cement, a
technique that gave magnificentresults but was very labor
intensive and one that, to the best of our knowledge has not
been duplicated in the United States. Though his work is
foundthroughout the US, his richest body of work is in the
Buffalo Niagara region. |
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Polish Arts Club
List
of Sławiński's Artworks - #1 List of Sławiński's Artworks - #2 |
Examples on Buffalo as an Architectural Museum:
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