“Four Polish Artists”

The paintings of Eugene Arct, Jerzy Tadeusz Polec, Marek Bojarski and Stanislaw Mark Drozd stem from an earlier School of Paris: the post-impressionist tradition. Although each is a solid painter in the sense of being “at home” with paint, the exhibition is more like what one would have expected to find on the Rue du Seine in 1926 instead of on Hollywood Boulevard in 1962. The paint quality is there in all of them, but the imagery is borrowed from Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh, and, in the case of Bojarski, from Ruisdael. If these artists could free themselves from this academy they might have the potential to make truly individual statements of importance.

––Arthur Secunda