Jacek Andrzej Rossakiewicz
Jacek Andrzej Rossakiewicz (16 October 1956 – 24 September 2016) was a Polish painter, art theorist, philosopher and interior architect. He began painting in the 1980s and drew on Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s Pure Form Theory, placing his work in the tradition of 20th‑century European art. From 1985 his paintings reflected Poland’s social and political life under martial law, which led him to formulate the idea Art as Freedom.
Rossakiewicz’s work pursued a single interpretation of reality, inspired by Witkiewicz’s sense of a visible universe and the power of composition to create tension. In 1987 he began to address social problems in art. In 1989 he produced The Everlasting Art, inspired by readings of the Old and New Testament. After 1989 he created evangelical paintings such as Passion of Dunkirk and Saint John Passion. The Passion of Dunkirk is housed at the Modern Art Museum in Dunkirk, France.
He died on 24 September 2016. He described his art as a way to express a person’s spiritual life: the subject doesn’t matter, but the work must come from inside life experiences and cannot be planned or made for money.
He also created a cycle of 15 large oil paintings, with a prologue titled The Transfiguration.
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