| 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. |
|
Polish
Arts Club, List
of Sławiński's Artworks |
Examples on Buffalo as an Architectural
Museum:
See also:
On other websites:
