Krakw 2006

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Kraków 2006
Miedzynarodowe Triennale Grafiki

• W GALERII
• Wypowiedzi uczniów
• Esseje

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W galerii

• I really like the titles of the prints and even
  the lack of it in some instances. This let
  visitors interpret the pictures in their own
  way.
• Podobaly mi sie tytuly grafik, a nawet ich
  brak. To daje odbiorcom zupelna dowolnosc w
  interpretowaniu dziela
• Edyta Bojarska

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• Picture and prints made big impression on me. I
  think the time spent in the gallery was
  fantastic.
• Obrazy i grafiki wywarly na mnie duze wrazenie.
  Mysle, ze czas spedzony w galerii byl
  fantastyczny
• Bartek Flak

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• The print exhibition was fantastic. The pictures
  made a huge impression on me. There are a lot of
  great pieces of art in one place. I think many
  people have to or must go there.
• Wystawa grafik byla fantastyczna. Obrazy wywarly
  na mnie ogromne wrazenie. W jednym miejscu bylo
  duzo swietnej sztuki. Mysle, ze wielu ludzi
  powinno albo i nawet musi tam pójsc
• Dawid Swiezy

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• I think that the exhibition was rather
  successful. The selection of prints was good, but
  I must say that not all of then were easy for me
  to understand.
• Mysle, ze ta wystawa byla raczej udana. Dobór
  grafiki byl dobry, ale musze powiedziec, ze nie
  wszystkie byly dla mnie latwe do zrozumienia
• Lucja Bodnar

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• This international exhibition which we saw last
  time was really interesting for me. It also gave
  me much to think about the problems of our
  society, for example peoples experiences from
  the second World War.
• Ta miedzynarodowa wystawa, która zobaczylismy
  ostatnio byla dla mnie naprawde interesujaca.
  Dala mi równiez wiele do myslenia o problemach
  naszego spoleczenstwa, na przyklad o
  doswiadczeniach ludzi z drugiej Wojny Swiatowej
• Estera Lesniak

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• Exhibition in Bunkier Sztuki was a meeting with
  culture and beautiful works of art.. In my
  opinion it was a great idea, because it fired my
  imagination and gave me a possibility to get to
  know graphic art closer and better
• Wystawa w Bunkrze Sztuki byla spotkaniem z
  kultura oraz pieknymi dzielami sztuki. Moim
  zdaniem byl to swietny pomysl, poniewaz rozpalil
  maja wyobraznie i dal mi mozliwosc blizszego i
  lepszego poznania grafik
• Joanna Kozak

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• If you dont like this type of exhibition or
  painting you shouldnt go there because it will
  be a waste of time for you. But if you like it,
  try and go. Maybe you will find something curious
  because there are really many works of art.
• Jesli nie lubisz tego typu wystaw lub
  rysunków, nie powinienes tam isc, poniewaz bedzie
  to dla ciebie strata czasu. Ale jesli to lubisz
  spróbuj i idz. Moze znajdziesz cos ciekawego,
  poniewaz tam jest naprawde wiele dziel sztuki.
• Kamil Pyzynski

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• The exhibition of prints in the Bunkier Sztuki
  was very surprising and interesting. Pictures
  showed people and other things in amazing place
  and situations.
• Wystawa grafik w Bunkrze Sztuki byla bardzo
  zdumiewajaca i interesujaca. Obrazy ukazywaly
  ludzi oraz rzeczy w zadziwiajacych miejscach i
  sytuacjach
• Agnieszka Majewska

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• From the prints we can get a lot of advice how
  to live, how to take life and other people around
  us. All of the works showed in this exhibition
  were unusual and had sth which attracted the
  visitors attention.
• Ze zdjec mozemy odczytac wiele rad jak zyc,
  postrzegac swiat i ludzi dookola. Kazda praca
  przedstawiona na tej wystawie byla wyjatkowa i
  miala cos, co przyciagalo uwage widzów.
• Karolina Szopa

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• Works of art shown in the gallery were amazing.
  I was impressed when I saw
• those magnificent pictures
• Dziela sztuki pokazane w galerii byly
  zdumiewajace. Bylem pod wrazeniem, kiedy
  zobaczylem te wspaniale obrazy
• Grzesiek Kukula

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• This exhibition was very good. I think that we
  need more exhibitions like this. I liked it very
  much.
• Ta wystawa byla bardzo dobra. Mysle, ze
  potrzebujemy ich wiecej. Bardzo mi sie to
  podoba.
• Michal Zgala
  

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• Exhibition showed us many interesting pictures
  which were made in many different techniques. I
  hope that in the future I will be able to see and
  be impressed by them one more time
• Wystawa ukazywala nam wiele ciekawych prac
  wykonanych w rozmaity sposób. Mam nadzieje, ze w
  przyszlosci bede mogla zobaczyc i przezyc ja
  jeszcze raz
• Aleksandra Kozlowska

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• The exhibition was really interesting, the
  picture interesting too. I was inclined to
  reflections I hope there will be much more
  exhibitions like Triennale Grafiki!
• Wystawa byla naprawde interesujaca, prace
  równiez. Bylam sklonna do refleksji Mam
  nadzieje, ze bedzie wiecej takich wystaw jak
  Triennale Grafiki!
• Edyta Gladysz

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• Personally I did not find any minuses.
  However, for some people those exhibition might
  hale been boring, because what unusual can be In
  dots or lines?! Everything depends on the
  personal approach of a person a who watches the
  exhibition.
• Jesli chodzi o minusy to ja ich nie
  odnalazlam. Jednak dla niektórych ludzi po prostu
  mogla byc ona nudna i nieznaczaca, bo przeciez co
  takiego niezwyklego jest w kropkach czy
  kreskach?! Wszystko zalezy od podejscia osoby
  ogladajacej wystawe.
• Karolina Dudek

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• After the exhibition I was thinking about the
  meaning of art. I think that art is very
  important for our existence.
• Po wystawie myslalem o znaczeniu sztuki.
  Mysle, ze sztuka jest bardzo wazna dla naszego
  istnienia.
• Michal Skotniczny

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• I think that this exhibition was a great
  experience for people who saw it. Watching prints
  from the different parts of globe like a Japan,
  Australia and for instance Hungary what is more
  the ticket to the art gallery is not expensive.
• Mysle, ze ta wystawa byla swietnym
  doswiadczeniem dla osób, które ja widzialy.
  Ogladanie grafik z róznych czesci globu, takich
  jak Japonia, Australia i na przyklad Wegry
• Kinga Kozaczka

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• Every picture was different so we could see
  almost everything nature, sports, pain, people
  in different situated
• Kazdy obraz byl inny, wiec moglismy zobaczyc
  prawie wszystko nature, sport, ból, ludzi w
  róznych sytuacjach
• Justyna Solak

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• There werent two same arts. All of them were
  special. All of them told us something about the
  world and the people around us.
• Tam nie bylo dwóch takich samych prac. Kazda z
  nich byla szczególna. Kazda mówila nam cos o
  swiecie i ludziach dookola nas.
• Anna Nowak

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• Many of the works were colorful and beautiful.
  Sometimes I was feeling joy, sometimes sorrow -
  stayed in my mind many emotions.
• Wiele prac bylo kolorowych i pieknych. Czasami
  czulam radosc, czasami smutek pozostalo w moim
  umysle wiele emocji.
• Diana Osmeda

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• The exhibition cast a spell on me with its
  diversity and originality of image. The picture
  showed us a lot of subjects and they brought up
  different problems
• Wystawa urzekla mnie róznorodnoscia i
  oryginalnoscia prac. Przedstawialy one mnóstwo
  tematów i poruszaly rózne problemy.
• Magda Strach

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• ..I liked it very much. In my opinion there
  should be more exhibitions like Triennale
  Grafiki cause it was wonderful!
• Bardzo mi sie podobalo. Moim zdaniem tam
  powinno byc wiecej wystaw takich jak Triennale
  Grafiki, poniewaz ta byla cudowna!
• Anna Piechówka

• I really enjoyed most of the picture, which
  were fantastic and thought-provoking. I will
  probably recommend this exhibition to my friends
  because I think it is worth seeing
• Z przyjemnoscia obejrzalam wiekszosc zdjec,
  które byly fantastyczne i prowokujace do
  myslenia. Prawdopodobnie polece te wystawe moim
  znajomym, poniewaz mysle, ze jest warta
  zobaczeniu
• Karolina Bisz

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Nasze esseje

• The picture that I am going to write about is a
  A lesson In Graphics , by an Austrian artist
  Norbert Nestler. I really liked this painting, I
  cannot forget about it. It made me think about
  life and death. The painting is dark and sad.
  There is a lot of black color in it. In the
  central place of the painting we can see the
  X-ray picture of the bones. We can say for sure
  that the person who had that X-ray was dying of
  cencer. It makes you think for a moment about
  life, suffering and death. We do not know much
  about person who had that X- ray. We do not now
  if it is a man or woman. We do not know how old
  she or he is. We can only see the picture which
  strikes us. In the painting we can also see a
  piece of paper and a pen. We can suspect that it
  is a prescnption.
• A lesson in Graphics is a lesson of like. In
  the same way as the painter learns graphics, we
  learn how to live. One bad move of the painter
  can destroz the whole painting and cancer can
  destroz a man is life.
• Karolina Szopa

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• I was at an exhibition in Bunkier sztuki on
  10 November. When I was there I saw the painting
  Essence of Life by Jutta Odenwaelder from
  Singapore, which made the biggest impression on
  me.
• The painting shows Chinese alphabets letters,
  which are put on a red-white-blue background.
  Colors of this painting are very intensive and
  perfectly connected to the paintings title. In
  my opinion the red is symbol of love and warm,
  the blue water and air. All these are elements
  without which people would not be able to live.
  When I look at this picture I can find there a
  piece of myself. The colors, which the painter
  used describe my life and what I love, what I
  feel. Jutta Odenwaelders print is very simple,
  however there is a lot of hidden meanings. When
  look at this work of art I start to think about
  my hobby Wisla Krakow, because the colors of my
  favorite club are the same as in the picture. I
  think that is the reason why I like it so much. I
  think that it is a very interesting and nice
  piece of art.
• When I saw this painting I exactly knew that I
  would want to describe it.
• Aleksandra Kozlowska

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• I would like to describe the picture of a Polish
  artist Malgorzata Malwina Niespodziewana. She
  created Carpet I. I think its a very
  interesting print and I would like to interpret
  it.
• Firstly, we can see many footmarks and
  finger-marks. If we treat this carpet as a human
  life, these marks will be our deeds or
  associations which we do during our lives. Some
  of these prints will be left on the carpet (e.g.
  our life) forever and they will not vanish even
  after the washing. They will not be forgotten.
  Another argument is that these marks can be good
  or bad but they have to be special to remain on
  our carpet.
• In conclusion, I showed one of many explanations
  of this picture but I think that I only touched
  the main topic of the picture.
• Kamil Pyzynski

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• I would like to describe the picture of
  Hungarian artist Árpád Daradics, a print entitled
  Red stories series lambs. This work of art
  interested me and I would like to share my
  interpretation of it with you.
• In the picture we can see the girl
  in a white dress and a veil. Her body and clothes
  are covered by red lambs. The girls body is all
  white besides her black hands.
• In the first place I want to say
  that in my opinion the main theme of this picture
  is crime which is commited by somebody who is
  innocent. The white dress which wears this girl
  is a symbol of innocence, of life without a sin.
  I think her dark hands can tell us something
  about her past. In my opinion she lived during
  the time of war and she had to commit murder if
  she wanted to survive. Those red lambs could
  represent all the terrible things she must have
  done.
• Secondly the picture made me reflect
  on life, war, and death. I would pay more
  attention to this girl. She looks like somebody
  who is after her First Communion. She steps up
  to her older life with the premonition of murder,
  pain and blood on her hands.
• In conclusion I want to emphasize
  the artists message to us. He wanted to show us
  how destructive the war can be to young people
  and advertise us not to repeat the mistakes of
  the past.
• Justyna Solak

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• When I toured the exhibition at an art gallery,
  I payed special attention to the print by Virge
  Joekalda from Estonia. It is title is Throbs
  III.
• The work of art represented the red poppies on
  the white background. My first associations are
  death, sadness and uncertainty. The picture is so
  gloomy and mysterious. The poppies in the picture
  are so sad. The flowers gobelts are turned to
  pit. They seem to be like death. They also seem
  to be crying or they feel shame about something.
  The red is a color of blood. This color was so
  clear on the white background, so provocative,
  unbearable and noisy. Maybe the flowers are
  bloody or this red is a red of their cheeks. The
  white background aroused inside me uncertainty,
  fear. The white color inflicted impression of
  emptiness. The white the color so clear and
  innocent conveyed suffering of the sad flowers.
  Maybe someone said This picture just shows
  several flowers on the white background nothing
  special. I do not think that. For me this work
  of art is full of emotion and deep essence. His
  mysterious and gloomy is power of this picture.
  Throbs III, I think, that is such a good title
  for this print.
• Magda Strach

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• On the 10th of October 2006 my class and me were
  in an art gallery called Bunker of Art. In this
  exhibition I saw a lot of interesting and curious
  prints and digital photos. However, the biggest
  impression made on me the digital print of Korean
  painter Chang Soo Kim, titled Flickering
  life trace.
• This image presents the palm of a man that is
  all covered in blood. I have chosen this digital
  print because, out of all the works of art, this
  one makes me think about it. It is very brutal
  and sad. It presents the brutality of human life.
  The owner of this palm probably committed a
  terrible crime. I think that he has killed
  somebody and now he is looking at the blood of
  his victim. Maybe he had regretted his crime when
  he saw the running trace of life. This print
  evokes many contradictory feelings within me.
• In my opinion that visit was very exciting. It
  has changed my opinion about modern art.
• Maciek Sajdera

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• Vacuum, despair, sense of injustice and urgency
  tucked away, where nobody will find it, none will
  again accuse, disappoint. I think that these are
  feelings of a boy presented by Zbigniew Bajek.
• He is lonely, because the background is black.
  The boy is left alone with his troubles, he is
  looking for somebody who can help him. We can see
  three pictures of the same man. In the left hand
  picture the boy is presented from his left
  profile. He is about 20 years old. He isnt
  looking at me, us... Perhaps he is ashamed of
  something... Why? Someone, who was his friend,
  heard him, broke his heart... Why? Against the
  background of the picture appear also the same
  man, but he looks like otherwise. Certainly he
  still suffers, however he reconciled with his
  fate, because he stopped crying. But whats the
  reason? I think that I can give an answer to all
  these questions. I pay attention to color, which
  is covering the boys face. What is this color?
  Orange-yellow. By the same token J can tell that
  the color has sth to do with the title of picture
  (part title),,(...)Yellow". This ,,Yellow" is a
  symbol. A close friend accused his, malign. We
  can imagine, what the man feels man, who has
  experienced humility by his friend. Two faces (in
  the left hand picture and face in the middle) are
  pity, disappointment. Third face is accepting
  everything with peace. I selected the picture.
• According to the Book of Tobias. Yellow years
  XI" because a boy, who is in the picture teaches
  me, that people should recover from pity. It is
  clear in particular in the third picture, where
  the boy stopped crying. This picture is
  describing story of boys suffering.
• Kasia Dudek

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• This place in some space is white and empty.
  White, which is not only a color but also the
  foundation for all various hues. Empty, which
  is not only non-existence, but it is the augury
  for something amazing. It is the door to
  beautiful world, where are not sadness tears or
  horrible things. White space is a symbol of that
  we need so many dreams to fill the vacuum.
• There is a woman in this space. She is asleep
  and her soul is beginning a wonderful flight to
  the sun. She does not remember who she is and
  what she must do. She is leaving the prosaic
  world. She is mind is in the hue of angels as
  well
• The woman is lonely, but when her leaves her
  body, she will meet her friends and family, who
  went away long ago. They will talk and laugh. All
  will be easy and plain. This is the paint of
  being free. But that is only a dream.
• Agnieszka Majewska

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• From among all those interesting and puzzling
  works of art. It is difficult to select one which
  is most expressive. However, I was most bewitched
  by Michael Bators print ,,Thicket 2. He comes
  from Germany.
• First impression-nothing curious. Only grass and
  leaves. However, I like nature and this fact
  allows me to reflect on that picture. Exuberant
  grass associates with wealth of peoples lives.
  Grass bent in all directions tells as about
  different sides of our lives problems. Thicket
  matches also the inevitable uncertainly of the
  next day. Bators print reflects on our lives. We
  do not know what is waiting for us. At every step
  new experience and surprise wait for us. In
  thicket grass also hides many riddles as well as
  in our lives.
• The picture conveys volatile moments and the
  weakness of peoples souls. As grass rocks in the
  wind, the same way we often change our opinions.
  This fact makes us reflect on our character or
  rather our submission which we undoubtedly
  harbor. Looking at this print we start to think
  about the o our own lives. Is he known how to do
  make the most of every second of this life?!
• ,,Thicket 2 title uncommon directly, but very
  haranguing. Thicket it is something profound,
  enigmatic and unknown. It is necessary to touch
  the depth of human soul and become acquainted
  with values followed by others. To sum up, our
  lives represents the depth of the wealth of our
  values, which we must find out and become
  acquainted with.
• Karolina Dudek

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• The most interesting picture for me of that
  exhibition is Raised Hide, dyptych Rene Kempen.
  I think that is the best print because it tells
  us about Auschwitz. Those were dreary and sad
  times, when people were killed and they could not
  say anything for themselves.
• However, the pulpit serves for speaking out
  loudly. Nowadays people do not have any
  restrictions. They can say what they want. People
  are independent.
• But when Hitler lived, concentration camps were
  built. Exactly there were guard towers. They look
  just like those raised hides in the picture. In
  those camps silence and pain dominated. We can
  see contrast here, because there are four objects
  looking identical.
• The picture is dark, the colors are sad.
  Everything is crying, because everyone knows the
  truth. We cannot forget that truth, because it is
  very important for us and for people who were
  killed and for their families.
• So, that print made a huge impression on me. At
  the exhibition there were a lot of great works of
  art, but in my opinion that one is exceptional.
• Dawid Swiezy

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• At the first sight, the screenprint of the
  Slovak Peter Augustovic, titled FXM in Mirror
  1, seems rather dull and boring. The background
  is grey with a rather darker shade of this
  colour, which makes me feel worried.
• The picture itself is not very big, so you need
  to be careful as that will help you to notice
  every single part of this work, which seems very
  interesting not only for the art critic, but also
  for the usual art-gallery goer. On the very grey
  background we can see a corner of a room. In the
  corner a man is sitting on a chair. His head is
  hanging down, his eyes are looking down at his
  feet this man seems to be very, very sad or
  maybe a little bit scared? As I looked at this
  part of the picture, I sympathised with him. He
  made such a poor impression... Why is this man so
  afraid, what is the reason, that he looks as he
  does? The answer to this question is brought by
  the greatest part of the picture two heads.
  Seen from their profiles, all in deep black, with
  their mouths opened in a scream, these heads as
  the title reveals are the face of one man with
  its reflection in a mirror. What does the man on
  the chair symbolise in this context? Is he the
  personification of fear? Or maybe he is the
  symbol of the remorse that is so big taht this
  man cannot deal with it?
• Whatever the interpretation might be, my
  personal feeling while standing in front of
  this picture is fear, and sympathy. But would I
  be as sympathetic if this was a usual and ugly
  man? I think Id pass right by him So that is
  the point we consider only beauty in our lives.
  If somebody is no-one important, no-one
  good-looking he is not worth our attention. Sad
  but true.
• Aleksandra Mróz

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• I want to describe the picture by Arpad Daradics
  (Hungary) from the Red Stories Series Lambs,
  because Its such a poignant picture. The
  interpretation is difficult , but I would like to
  explain the mystery of this image. In the
  foreground there is a cute, little girl, whos
  wearing old-fashioned Communion clothes a white
  dress and a veil, but there are mysterious red
  lambs on her dress. Some of them are big and the
  other are smaller. Its really bizarre. Moreover,
  the girl has got white body and black hands! Im
  impressed by the authors vision. In my opinion
  this picture has got a really important message
  about the Second World War. While I was looking
  at the print I started to think about poor
  children who died during this war. Maybe this
  girl died on her Communion Day? Its possible,
  but we dont know what the red lambs on her dress
  mean. I guess that lambs are bloody sins of Axis
  Powers during the war. The black arms are the
  symbol of her previous life. Maybe its funny,
  but I was afraid when I looked at this picture in
  the gallery. In my opinion this girl is talking
  to us about death, misery and cruel soldiers.
• Picture by Arpad Daradics is such a wonderful
  one beautiful, frightening and also scary. I
  admire the artist because he has big imagination
  and a big heart.
• Anna Piechówka

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• I saw Haitian Dance Fantasy at the
  International Print Triennials in Cracow. I have
  seen this picture once, but I will remember it
  for a long time.
• Why did I single out that particular print? The
  majority of art works at the exhibition were dark
  and sad. The others were very gaudy and
  artificial. Haitian Dance Fantasy isnt like
  that. It shows simple, natural happiness. It
  includes real emotions. In the picture there is a
  dancing woman. It is so common! You can ask me
  what is the point? Why did I choose Mazzoccas
  picture to write about? Im fascinated by the way
  which the artist has chosen to show the movement.
  When I was looking at this painting, I was under
  the impression that this woman was dancing one of
  this fast, Latin American dances. Maybe thats
  the essence of Haitian dance too. I always wanted
  to dance. Feelings find expression in dancing.
  When you are looking at Mazzoccas print you can
  almost share the passion of dancing with the
  woman, her happiness to be alive.
• Gus Mazzocca made use of warm colors red,
  yellow, orange. It gives the effect of joy and
  makes this work lively and bright.
• In my opinion this painting is shouting Carpe
  Diem!. It is shouting the same to everyone of
  us. It is your decision would you listen to its
  voice?
• I admire the woman in the picture. She forgets
  about all her problems while she is dancing the
  Haitian dance. She is free, wonderfully free I
  want to be free just like her!
• Can I? Carpe Diem
• Anna Nowak

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• I have chosen to describe the picture
  entitled "Throbs III" by Virge Joekalda. In this
  print we can see a few red flowers. But these
  flowers have slightly irregular stalks. I think
  that these flowers symbolize people. They have a
  weak stalks. I think that these stalks mean that
  people are very weak, they easily can change
  their opinions when the fortune seems wrong.
• But in this picture these flowers have a
  beautiful red inflorescence. It symbolize that
  every man is made to do good acts. This picture
  has a very clever moral, which is very important
  for people. Every man should know that he is
  good. Of course all of us can sometimes sin or do
  bad acts, but we must forgive.
• I think that this print is very
  metaphorical, and everyone has their own
  interpretation for this work.
• Bartek Mazurek

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• On 10th of October my class were at the
  graphics exhibition at the art bunker. The
  exhibition title was International Print
  Triennial. The jury selected 322 graphic works
  by 229 artists from 50 countries that will be
  displayed in the main exposure and awarded the
  Grand Prix as well as other prizes. In exposition
  there were many kinds of engravings, and it is
  hard to single out one author or work. Every work
  was original and had individual remittance, so
  everyone could find something in his taste. Some
  exhibits maybe were slightly thrilling but the
  present world is not quiet either. Art
  principally should be an answer to actuality, not
  only satisfaction for aesthetics. However, it is
  not a subject of this essay. I cannot select one
  print so instead I decided to write about a few
  works, which, according to me, have the same
  meaning. This coruprises have 252 disjointed
  lines in white 252 lines in black, 252
  disjointed lines in black 252 lines in white
  (both by Horst Bartnig), Back Space and Back
  Bone (C. Boucher) and Self-Portrait
  (C.K.Burman). They neither have similar outlook
  nor were made in the same technique. However, I
  thing that they have got a lot in common. I
  consider that they show different views on one
  thing. They say that nothing is black or white
  but maybe it is grey or even white-black and
  inversely. These prints teach us how to look at
  the world from different augles and let us
  observe good and bad parts of this prospect. It
  is not only things and phenomena but also people,
  their feelings, excitements, reactions shine and
  shadows of life. In my opinion, they show the
  world as it is- beautiful and terrific at the
  same time. It is hard recapitulate my
  considerations, but I can say that art is the
  means for accowriting for your emotion. It helps
  to disclose what a human cannot say with words.
• Lucja Bodnar

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• I visited an exhibition in the art gallery
  Bunkier sztuki last week. I saw a lot of
  interesting pictures there. They were wonderful.
  Each of them was different from each other and
  each conveyed anther message . They were funny,
  sad or horrific. It was a great pleasure to see
  these picture
• I enjoyed the most a picture titled
  Self-portret. The author is chila Kumari
  Burman. Chilas work of art is very colourful.
  She introduces hesself in dozens of small
  pictures which present her own personality. Their
  graphics very curious. I think she has difficulty
  in describing herselfe and she wants to show
  that in our world that people lead double lives.
  People are at the same time, both sympathetic or
  unfriendly, sad or cheerful.
• In my opinien Chila Kumar Burman displays a
  very interesting and anusual portait of herself.
  Looking at her work i imagine myself being
  sometimes very happy but sometimes upset .
• Emilia Jasinska

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• Blood. It was my first association when I saw
  this picture. It was a babys face but everything
  was red. I though about abortion. But something
  was wrong. Baby was not sad and it was not
  crying. A child was happy and it was smiling. And
  then I saw an inscription Not for sale. I
  understood that it was a baby of a woman who
  loves it very much and who will never get rid of
  her child.
• In my opinion this picture is something like
  homage to pay to every unborn child. I do not
  understand women who abort their kids. I cannot
  judge them but sometimes I think have they pangs
  of conscience? I do not know but I know one thing
  this picture impressed me and compelled me to
  think about abortions problem.
• This picture is called Not for sale (red
  version). Katarzyna Lukasik was an author of it.
• Edyta Bojarska

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• 'What's that? Mika looked up from the sketchpad
  lying on her knees and saw José, standing in
  front of her. He was staring at the picture she
  drew and trying to see anything among her
  fingers. 'A sketch of a picture I'll send for the
  competition,' she answered a bit reluctantly. The
  man sat on the grass next to her and looked over
  her shoulder at the sheet of paper. It pictured
  some strange blue creature on the left and a few
  leaves on the remaining part of the page, all
  drawn quite carelessly with crayons. José had a
  little problem with identyfing the animal, but he
  took a risk and said 'Nice crocodile, really.
  'Mika's glare was enough to make him start
  thinking about the best way of escape. 'It's a
  frog,' she growled with an insulted face. José
  bravely decided to defend his opinion. 'It can be
  anythin' BUT frog,' he stated and again met
  Mika's bloodthirsty stare. 'You see? Just correct
  it here... and here... and- 'Maybe you'll draw
  your own one,' suggested Mika really politely,
  moving the sketch-book away from his reach. 'This
  work is mine and I don't wanna change anythin'.
  'But doesn't art insist on changing?' asked José
  with a mean smile in a corner of his lips. Mika
  had averted her head and was pretending she
  didn't hear anything. 'When you have an idea,
  draw it. But when after some time you realise it
  doesn't look like it should, just change it. You
  were the one who told me the modern art should be
  spontaneous, didn't' cha? 'Yeah, yeah,' she
  murmured and waved her hand as if she wanted to
  get rid of some pushy insect. 'Now go and gnaw
  someone else, will ya? 'It really looks more
  like a crocodile, y'know,' he said just before
  walking away. Mika had observed him untill he
  disappeared behind the trees - then she sighed
  deeply and took a black crayon into her hand.
  'Day after day he's gettin' more and more
  troublesome,' she muttered to herself while
  drawing in the frog's mouth some sharp,
  crocodile-like teeth.
• Anna Samek

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• Modern art has been misunderstood since it
  was being produced. Some people can not imagine
  how a pile of bricks, a picture with only a small
  writing or a group of rectangles in it we can
  call art.
• I think the purpose of modern art is to provoke
  people. The author wants to show us something
  amazing, and what he felt during the process of
  painting this picture. I really like this kind of
  art, because I love mysterious and controversial
  works of art. Recently I have visited an
  exhibition International Print Triennial, it
  sited of modern prints showing problems of the
  people all over the world. I really like one of
  digital photos which is a work of Judyta Bernas
  from Poland. It shows a woman who is clasping her
  knees. You can not see her face which make the
  picture even more interesting. Her position is
  similar to a position which a human has in its
  embryonic period. I guess she probably has lots
  of troubles and she doesnt want to think about
  them and it is the reason for her position.
  Because the safest place for a human is their
  mothers womb. She looks as she is trying to
  hide and separate her problems from the whole
  world.
• The conclusion is the exhibition is really
  worth seeing, and modern art., in spite of being
  very difficult to understand, is interesting and
  thought-provoking.
• Karolina Bisz

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• Sergi Castignani is a Spanish artist, whose
  works of art we could see at the exhibition
  International print triennial in Cracow. I
  think the picture Ariadnas thread is very
  interesting.
• This is a picture plain and profound. The author
  goes back to ancient Greek religion. Ariadna was
  a young women who helped a hero. Tezeus overcame
  the monster owing to Ariadnas thread. The large
  labyrinth of the picture is our life. It has a
  lot of winding ways and we day by day are
  going on our lifes winding ways. Every day, we
  are getting help from other people from our
  family, friends. But sometimes, when we really
  need the help, the people are nor there for us.
  And then, they are our anvil. And we are very,
  very lonely. But these always is someone, who
  lends us a helping hand.
• Colours in the picture are dark, gloomy. It is
  not optimistic. But in my opinion, in our life we
  should have hope. I think, the best will be
  words
• With all its shaml, drudgery and broken dreams,
• It is still a beautiful world
• (Desiderata)
• Edyta Gladysz

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• This print has made a very big impression
  on me and from the first look it riveted my
  attention. It is painted with dark colors, so it
  associates with sadness, pain and suffering, In
  my feeling the picture shows us the world during
  the war, because we can see symbolic shapes like
  religious crosses or free strokes. These lines
  may show remnants after bombs which have
  destroyed many towns. While I look at this
  painting, it reminds me of horrifying war events
  which I have red in books about. It moves me a
  lot and makes me feel, that years ago people had
  to fight for our freedom. When we look at this
  work of art we can reflect that everything is
  poor, fleeting and short-lived. What we like so
  much, can be destroyed in a moment, by a
  stranger, who has no right to take anything, that
  belongs to us, something that we love.
• I believe it was created on purpose to
  prevent other mistakes like war, which killed so
  many people and made so many families unhappy.
• Elzbieta Brzuchacz

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• I saw this print for the first time at the art
  exhibition in Bunkier Sztuki and then it made a
  terrible impression on me. Embarkation for
  Cythera is a work made with ground etching and
  engraving by Peter Milton, a very famous American
  graphic artist.
• This work presents us a moment when some kind of
  zeppelin starts his travel to a mystic land,
  Cythera. It is full of anxiety and suspense,
  because of its grey hue. When I look at this
  creation I instinctively see an old- fashioned
  nineteenth century photograph of a European city
  in the evening. A lot of free space contrasts
  with a narrow, steep alley and creates a mood of
  irrationality in this composition. A careful
  observer can notice there a lot of important
  details, which show that this is a normal,
  ordinary situation for instance peoples faces
  in a window or a couple in the doorway. A strong
  point of this work is multiplicity of
  explanations, different for every viewer.
• In conclusion I will say that this creation is
  one of the most intriguing and absorbing that I
  have ever seen. I hope you are as enchanted by
  this print as I am.
• Michal Zgala

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• In the picture there is a very slim woman. This
  picture looks just an x-ray photo. This woman is
  wearing average clothes. These clothes only
  partly are able to mask her bony figure. She
  looks sad, depressed, in her eyes lives
  emptiness, her soul is dead. In the picture,
  besides the girl, there is a nothink, absolute
  darkness.
• Each time when I look at this woman I am afraid,
  because I know anorexis can concern each and
  every person. Millions of people in the world
  suffer from anorexis and we cannot see that or we
  do not want to see this problem. Every day I pass
  sick people on the street or in a shop and school
  and I am sad because I cannot help them.
• This pictures is not only a great example of
  modern art but it is a consignment. The artist is
  teaching us humility, sympathy and sensibility.
• Bartek Flak

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• Karoline was a little girl when it happened, but
  she remembers it all. She will never forget
  those times when everything was so beautiful and
  simple. Karoline was brought up by her
  grandmother and she was often playing next to
  her. Their family were not rich, but she was very
  happy. They were living in an old house in a
  small village.
• That morning Karoline was sitting in the garden
  and her grandmother was sitting at the sewing
  machine. Suddenly she shouted
• Come on, Karoline! I sewed a dress for you.
• The dress was beautiful. Karoline put it on
  quickly. In the pocket of the dress she was
  carrying small pieces of paper her childs
  secrets. Her life was happy and peaceful. But the
  day come on, when everything changed.
• It was like a nightmare for a little girl,
  didnt understand what war was. Thousands of
  people died, but she had good luck.
• Karoline saw nothing she was lying under the
  bed, covered by her dress. She heard her
  grandmas desperate cries. Karoline was too weak
  and small to do anything. She never saw her
  grandmother after that. The second world war took
  away the most important things from her. The time
  spent in the orphanage and hard experiences made
  her life sad and empty. When she grew up she
  decided to be an artist.
• When the war finally ended in 1945 pepole came
  back to their activites. But first they built a
  new, better world. Many years later Karoline
  visited her old house. Under the rubbish she
  found many things also her dress. There were
  still the pieces of paper in the pocket! The
  dress saved her life, but it also was a
  remembrance of her childhood. It reminded her
  about the wonderful time, when everything was so
  sacred and innocent...
• Diana Osmeda

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• Last Wednesday our class went to an Art Gallery
  near Planty, for we wanted to see the
  International Print "Triennial" exhibition. The
  form mistress, Mrs Warszynska, went into
  ecstasies over it and so did I. We saw a lot of
  really good prints there, but one of them was in
  particular interesting to me. The work of art
  entitled "Red stories, series Lambs" was created
  byArpad Daradics. It presented a young girl
  wearing a white dress, so maybe she had just
  received the Holy Communion. I think that without
  the red, terrible sheep on the girls dress the
  picture would be quiteordinary. The girl was
  smiling, nevertheless it reminded me of an
  authentic story from my fathers life. When the
  second World War started, my father was a
  seven-year-old boy. He lived with his family near
  the labour camp in Plaszów. Everyday Jews and
  their children from this camp worked really hard
  building embankments. However, little Ann, who my
  father met, was shifting a switch - she could
  only do this kind of work. My dad used to give
  her some soup, which he received from the
  Germans, and sometimes some bread. They were
  friends until the moment when Ann and her parents
  had to go to Auschwitz - Birkenau concentration
  camp. Ann was like a lambled to the slaughter
  she was scared and she did not understand the
  situation. How manychildrens lives ended in this
  way? How many of them did not know the real
  meaning ofchildhood? Why so many..? Summarizing,
  I would like to say that I will never forget
  thisexhibition. Thank God that we live in the
  21st century.
• Estera Lesniak

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• In the picture I can see on the right-a red
  square, on the left an intersection of railway.
  The latter of the picture is greyish-green and
  gloomy. It is a big contrast between the two
  parts. This picture associates with the
  concetration camp-Birkenau. The red square is a
  symbol of pain, sheed blood. In Birkenau there
  are similar intersection tracks like in the
  picture. It resembles a big tragedy of millions
  of people, who uselessly and unfairly died.
  Brzezinka concentration camp was built in 1942.
  It was a section of KL Auschwitz, which was the
  biggest Nazi's concetration camp. Prisoners died
  of exhaustion, hunger, epidemics, mass
  executions. Birkenau was the biggest place of
  planned destruction of mainly Jewish population.
  They were murdered in gas chambers. The bodies
  were incinerated the special stores for burning
  people. At the gas chambers died to two millions
  Jews mainly from Poland, Hungarian and Greece.
  Today in old concentration camp there is museum
  visited every year six hundred thousand people
  from all over the world. There is also the
  International Monument of Fascims Victims. I
  think the picture commemorates the big tragedy
  ofmillions people, who died terrible death. I
  think the author the picture-Henriette
  Leinfellher-wants us all to remember about this
  big crime-holocaust. I am interesting it, so
  maybe that is why I noticed this picture and
  payed special attention to it.
• Aleksandra Nazimek

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• Many people have very superficial views of the
  world. They do not see things which are the most
  important. In art we have to know how to look,
  because than we can see a hidden symbolic sense.
  The point of view depends on the place you sit.
  This thought represents Michel Cleempoel in a
  print "A history of watching IV".
  
  In
  the middle of the engraving a postcard is
  situated, with the painting "The Arnolfini
  Portrait" by Jan van Eyck. It shows the marriage
  ceremony. Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his
  wife is one of the most famous and original
  paintings in the world. On the face of it is
  simple portrait, but if we look obsely, we will
  see that this work of art has a hidden sense
  which was invisible in the beginning. For
  instance, over the mirror we can see an
  inscription "Johannes de eyck fuit hic", what
  means that "Johannes de Eyck was here". Probably
  the artist was one of the two people we can see
  in the mirror. This reflection creates the
  extraordinary effect. It is an absolute peach!
  Futhermore, on the mirror's frame there are ten
  miniature scenes from the Passion of Christ.
  Although in the picture there is a dog, which is
  symbolic of fidelity. The green of the woman's
  dress symbolises her hope that she is going to
  become a mother. In Michel Cleempoel's print, the
  turquoise background, around the postcard, there
  are many mirrors. It is the same mirror, which is
  in Jan van Eyck's painting! The print "A history
  of watching IV" shows us that people always
  uncover sense just when they see the symbol.
• Katarzyna Stachurska

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• Virge Joekalda "Shivers III" "Shivers III". This
  picture includes some negative feelings. Virge
  Joekalda had created a mysterious work of art and
  I certainly was impressioned.
• In the first place, I must admit that thorns
  shown in the picture remind me of the crown of
  thorns which Jesus Christ had been wearing on the
  cross.
• Secondly, the print made me reflect on a sense
  of life. In addition, it pay attention to
  physical sufferings. What is more, I reckon that
  thorns shown in this picture are covered by
  blood, which may represent death and pain. In
  conclusion, I think that "Shivers III" includes
  an important message. Human life is short and I
  believe we should make it better by some good
  deeds. To sum op, the described picture informs
  us about the meaning of human pain.
• Grzesiek Kukula

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