The Kapists on 100th anniversary

The new temporary exhibition at the National Museum in Kraków presents the early works of the members of the group, which formed in 1923 around the professor of the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts – Józef Pankiewicz. The Kapists used the concept of “color games” formulated by Pankiewicz and it was color that constituted the fundamental issue in their creation. Since the content was not an important element of the piece, the subject matter of their works was mainly limited to landscape, still life and rarely portrait. The exception among the Kapists – Zygmunt Waliszewski, considered the importance of the subject matter, focused on the relationships between the figures and painted them in an expressive, dynamic way. The exhibition is open until April 6.