아! 꿈속에 살고싶어라 / Joanna Zjawinska
The Newest Paintings 2009
America is a vast conspiracy to make you feel happy
2009
48x48
oil on canvas
My parents had an open marriage, still don't know how I feel about it
2009
54x60
oil on canvas
My stepmother was so hot that I'm still in therapy
2009
60x54
oil on canvas
We're going to meet a boy I like, and she's going to help me seal the deal
2009
60x54
oil on canvas
Saints were sinners too!
2009
54x72
oil on canvas
New Paintings 2006-2008
Aimeé and jaguar
2007
60x50
oil on canvas
Alice in wonderland
2007
40x42
oil on canvas
Butterfly mornings
2007
58x54
oil on canvas
Don't you come messing with my world
2008
50x36
oil on canvas
Elisa
2007
50x40
oil on canvas
He was trained to use silence the way the old masters used white
2008
60x54
oil on canvas
He would never cry again
2006
50x35
oil on canvas
How fortunate the man
2006
42x46
oil on canvas
Its hard out here for a pimp!
2008
60x54
oil on canvas
Lost in translation
2008
52x46
oil on canvas
Madame Butterfly
2007
50x34
oil on canvas
Monkeys
2007
46x42
oil on canvas
Murmur of the heart
2007
58x34
oil on canvas
My ambition is not to work
2007
42x46
oil on canvas
Nonchalance is dead
2007
50x60
oil on canvas
Patience was never my middle name
2006
42x46
oil on canvas
Private dancer
2006
50x34
oil on canvas
Secret garden
2007
54x54
oil on canvas
Daddy, she is a girl I want to marry, without her my life is over
2008
50x52
oil on canvas
Ah, wilderness of a heart...
2008
54x50
oil on canvas
With me they hear music
2008
48x38
oil on canvas
You don't know her husband Henry
2007
60x50
oil on canvas
A kiss is just a kiss
1994
48x61
oil on canvas
Breaking silence
1994
40x60
oil on canvas
I never wanted an easy life
1991
40x60
oil on canvas
The Voyeur
1994
40x60
oil on canvas
Victor, His Wife, Her Lover and Their Friend
1995
48x58
oil on canvas
Ah! Je veux vivre ~꿈속에 살고싶어라~
Gounod, Charles Francois
'Romeo & Juliet'
sop.유미자
::: Biographya
Joann Zjawinska was born in Poland where she began to paint at the early age of six. She earned her B.A. degree in 1972 from the School of Architecture in Warsaw. To follow her own dream of being an artist, Joanna then studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts where she perfected her unique style of oil and watercolor painting. In 1978 she was awarded a masters degree in Graphic Design with honors in painting from the academy which is one of the most prestigious school in Europe. In 1979 Joanna came to San Francisco with her husband, Mark, and daughter, Sonia, and formally launched her career.
Joanna’s paintings transport us to worlds of fantasy and elegance in images that explore complex, passionate relationships. Inspired by artists such as Vermeer, Degas and Sargent, Joanna expresses her passion for life, her family, her homeland and her adopted home. Her world is feminine and seductive.
Where her early paintings were filled with beautiful and chic people, theatrical scenery and voyeurism, her current work tells a simpler story. Still influenced by cinema, fashion and music, Zjawinska strives to create beauty in face and form, in landscape or abstract setting, and this theme remains integral to her work. She relies on strong composition and a deeper palette to create visions of mysterious women who seek and reveal passion.
Joanna’s paintings are housed in many prestigious private and public collections including the National Museum in Torun, Poland; the Polish Institute of New York; Guerlain Perfumes, Paris; Elizabeth Arden, San Francisco; Nordstrom, Inc., Seattle; Warner/Vanderbilt, New York; and the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. She has exhibited in numerous galleries both international and national. In 2001 she had a retrospective show "The sweet taste of freedom" in famous Napa Valley winery of Robert Mondavi and in 2003 her show "A handsome husband is better than a mink coat" was at Saks Fifth Avenue in San Francisco.
Ms. Zjawinska has received renown for her rich, expressive oils and watercolors as well as for her outstanding collections of limited edition serigraphs.
http://www.joannazjawinska.com/
Song Woon Art Hall