Michał Karpiński
Place of birth: Poland
Current location: Warsaw, Poland
instagram: Karpsky
E-mail: karpskyart@gmail.com
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Michał Karpiński is a Warsaw-based young artist. Born in Lublin, Poland 28th of September 1998. He is devoted to figurative painting and portraits. Michał paints in a realistic manner, combining it with a touch of impressionistic and academic approach.
- 2017 - I place “American Art Awards” in graphite/ink/charcoal portrait category
- 2017 – III place “The Artist’s Magazine” in a Student division
- 2019 – Finalist of the “14th ARC Salon” portrait category
- 2020 – currently (09.11.2020) semifinalist in “15th ARC Salon”
In 2017 quoted by “The Artist’s Magazine” along with Jie Zhuang and Matt Herriot as a “…tomorrow’s masters”
Wim
I know my artwork is finished when…?
Usually when the deadline is over.
Waclaw
Which are your favourite artists?
Lucian Freud, Antonio Mancini, Menzel, Rembrandt of course and Francis Bacon. I admire their style very much.
Waclaw The Mariner
Greatest person you ever met?
Hard to chose only one. For sure I would mention a physicist Rector Prof. W.A. Kamiński, that I had a pleasure to paint as a commission for my university. I would mention the capitan Waclaw, (man on the painting) a good friend of my grandpa and many more who were significantly important for my attitude towards art like painter mr Leszek. There are couple more people to mention but for sure there will be chance to write about it more in future.
Alice
What does your work aim to say?
Except from ‘Mum and dad, that wasn’t a joke when I said I will be a painter’ it’s up to the viewer’s interpretation. But now seriously. Hans Zimmer once said: “Even If we still haven’t build the highest possible skyscrapers, there is always a time and place to tell a story.” Sometimes I feel an urge to elaborate (ponder) on this thought. We all seek for role models, especially when we’re young. It strikes me that the criteria of what is deemed to be a good life change so much, thereby making people feel bad about themselves even if they are actually doing OK. The media sells us stories about lives of famous people, praising almost every word they said. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t think that being famous is bad, and we shouldn’t pursue that. I reckon that the message I want to put across is to just look around. Not every hero is on a TV show. For e.g maybe not that far from your house there is a single mother with a bunch of kids, working a part time job just to make the ends meet. There are many people who for example have gone trough addiction or been subject to domestic violence and their life’s achievement is be to remain unnoticeable and never go back to their previous condition. Sometimes I just want to convey a real life story of interesting people that never had an opportunity to speak, ‘capture’ their stories on my paintings.
Yoga
Is the artistic life lonely? What do you do to counteract it?
I wouldn’t say lonely, more likely I would use a term as ‘individual’. Yes it is. I’m quite an introvert, so I’m fine with spending the time in my own company. To counteract? – I got wonderful friends always just one call away.
Marie