| Józef
Sławiński, born in
1905 in Poland and trained there and in Italy as a
muralist, first came to Western New York on a visit in
1961-63. He returned in 1964 [for a mural project at Assumption
Church] 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 as Diego
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 be worked on while still wet.
Sławiński
extended the technique to four layers of colored
cement, a technique that gave magnificent results 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 found throughout the US,
his richest body of work is in the Buffalo Niagara
region. |
|
Polish Arts
Club, List
of Sławiński's Artworks |
Examples
on Buffalo as an Architectural Museum:
See
also:
On other websites:
