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
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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.
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