Peintre-graveur, malarz uprawiający grafikę. Współzależność technologii i formy

Abstract

The first part of the article discusses the figures of Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn as they were able not only to pass on the topics and problems of the epoch in which they happened to live but also – by using new technologies – to inscribe their work with their own private lives. They were, at the same time, pioneers who transformed the meaning and significance of printmaking from its illustrative and typographic function into its role of graphic art marked by the author’s individuality. Other artists chosen for discussion in the article, Francisco Goya and Pablo Picasso, were already able to follow what had become a beaten track in that respect. These great personalities are juxtaposed with artists, searching for new ideas, yet not so much burdened with the myth of art as icon, who created graphic art or who create graphic art as an equivalent complement to their oeuvre as painters. The overview of artists starts with William Hogarth and ends with Polish artists active in the last decades.