Photorealistic paintings of Baghdad by A. A. Sadowski
28.08.2022
Andrzej Adam Sadowski (1946-2016) visited Iraq 35 years ago to participate in the - recently revived - Babylon Festival and the Exhibition of Polish Art in Baghdad. He was a pioneer of photorealism genre in Poland. Now his son, Łukasz Mikołaj Sadowski, shares with us some of his father's photorealistic, Baghdad-themed paintings.
A. A. Sadowski, born in Łódź, studied in Public Academy of Arts (now Academy of Fine Art) in Łódź in 1964-70; a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and Art (1976-78), Fondazione Romana Marchesa J.S. Umiastowska in Rome (1978) and Maison d'Artiste de la Grande Vigne in Dinan, France (2004).
He was a professor of painting and drawing in the Academy of Fine Art in Łódź, University of Computer Sciences and Skills in Łódź, European Academy of Arts in Warsaw and the Higher School of Trade in Łódź.
A.A.Sadowski mainly created acrylic & oil works on canvas and paper. As his son explains, he was a forerunner of photorealism in Poland (the genre originating in the 60's in USA), a very consequent and prolific one. Photorealism is a genre of painting (or other graphic media), in which an artist examines a photograph and then tries to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.
