Polish art has often reflected European trends while maintaining its unique character.
The Kraków school of Historicist painting developed by Jan Matejko produced monumental portrayals of customs and significant events in Polish history.
He is referred to as the most famous Polish painter or even the "national painter" of Poland.
Stanisław Witkiewicz was an ardent supporter of Realism in Polish art, its main representative being Jozef Chełmoński.
The Młoda Polska (Young Poland) movement witnessed the birth of modern Polish art and engaged in a great deal of formal experimentation led by Jacek Malczewski (Symbolism), Stanisław Wyspiański, Józef Mehoffer, and a group of Polish Impressionists. Artists of the twentieth-century Avant-Garde represented various schools and trends.
Stanisław Witkiewicz (Polish painter, illustrator, art critic and theoretician, a writer, 1851-1915 )
The art of Tadeusz Makowski was influenced by Cubism; while Władysław Strzemiński and Henryk Stażewski worked within the Constructivist idiom.
Distinguished contemporary artists include Roman Opałka, Wilhelm Sasnal, Leon Tarasewicz, Jerzy Nowosielski, Wojciech Siudmak, Mirosław Bałka, and Katarzyna Kozyra and Zbigniew Wąsiel in the younger generation.
Tamara de Lempicka was Polish artist creating Art Deco paintings. The most celebrated Polish sculptors include Xawery Dunikowski, Katarzyna Kobro, Alina Szapocznikow and Magdalena Abakanowicz.
Since the inter-war years, Polish art and documentary photography has enjoyed worldwide recognition.
In the sixties the Polish Poster School was formed, with Henryk Tomaszewski and Waldemar Świerzy at its head.
Tomek Sętowski | Surrealist painter
List of Polish Artists: Painters, Sculptors, Photographers, Poets, Musicants, Writers and the artistic movements definition
- Emilia Wilk, 1983 | Ballet dancers
- Emilia Wilk, 1983 | Impressionistic realism painter
- Boleslaw Szankowski | Portrait painter
- Marta Dahlig, 1985 | Fantasy / Concept Illustrator
- Tomasz Alen Kopera, 1976 | Magic Surrealism painter
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- Maria Gruza | Figurative painter
- Bogdan Prystrom | Abstract Digital Photographer
- Karol Bąk, 1961 | Fantasy / Figurative painter
- Damian Klaczkiewicz | Figurative painter
- Michal Lukasiewicz, 1974 | Pop art portraits painter
- Andrzej Malinowski, 1947 | Figurative painter
- Tamara De Lempicka | Art Déco painter
- Rafal Olbinski, 1945 | Surrealist / Visionary painter
- Tamara de Lempicka's 120th Birthday / Oggi il 120° compleanno
- Albert Einstein's letter to Marie Curie, 1911
- Renata Brzozowska, 1977 | Abstract painter
- Miroslaw Scheib, 1963 | Romantic Cityscape painter
- Tomek Setowski, 1961 | Magical Realism painter ⁽²⁾
- Wladyslaw Czachórski | Academic / Genre painter
- Magdalena Serwin, 1983 | Figurative painter
- Stanislaw Zoladz, 1952 | Watercolour painter
- Igor Talwinski | Vintage Portrait painter
- Rafal Olbinski, 1943 | Surrealist painter
- Lionello Balestrieri | Triptych of Chopin / Il trittico di Chopin, 1904
- Małgorzata Chodakowska, 1965 | Water Statues
- Erich Fried / Igor Mitoraj | Non so cosa sia l'amore / I don’t know what love is..
- Dariusz Żejmo, 1966 | Fantasy /Figurative painter
- Zdislav Beksinski | Utopian Realism /Surreal architecture painter
- Justyna Kopania | Ballet Dancers
- Marius Zabinski, 1956 | Cubist painter
- Wieslaw Smetek, 1955 | Conceptual Illustrator
- Maja Wronska, 1989 | Watercolor Cityscapes painter
- Krzysztof Ludwin, 1962 | Architectural watercolour painter
- Stefan Bakałowicz | Academic painter
- Moïse Kisling ~ Surrealist painter | School of Paris
- Roman Zakrzewski | Figurative painter
- Zbigniew Kopania, 1949 | Still Life/Landscape painter
- Małgorzata Chodakowska, 1965 | Figurative sculptor
- Olga Boznanska | Impressionist painter
- Wojciech Weiss ~ Expressionist/Colourist painter
- Lidia Wylangowska ~ Figurative painter
- Barbara Jaskiewicz, 1957 ~ Impressionist Palette Knife painter
- Dariusz Żejmo, 1966 | Fantasy /Venice painting
- Mariola Bogacki, 1965 | Surralist painter
- Elzbieta Brozek, 1979 ~ The Red hat
- Anna Ewa Miarczynska, 1961 | Surrealist painter
- Nâzım Hikmet | Before the time runs out, my rose | Prima che bruci Parigi..
- Jaroslaw Jasnikowski, 1976 | Surrealist painter
- Tytus Brzozowski | Surrealist painter
- Igor Mitoraj, 1944 ~ La Valle dei Templi
- Tamara De Lempicka ~ The Dream | VideoArt
- Teodor Axentowicz ~ Academic painter
- Renata Domagalska ~ Red Dream
- Renata Domagalska ~ Rainy street
- Jacek Yerka, 1952 ~ Sogno Surrealista
- Renata Domagalska ~ Flamenco Fire
- Adam Styka ~ Under the African Sun
- Alina Sibera ~ Figurative painter
- Justyna Kopania ~ Abstract Palette Knife painter
- Stanislaw Wilk | Landscape painter
- Adam Martinakis, 1972 | Surrealist Digital painter
- Papa Wojtyła back in Vatican with Tomasz Rut
- Tomasz Rut in the Vatican Collection
- Igor Morski, 1960 ~ Surrealist painter
- Marek Langowski ~ The dance of light in Venice
- Ewelina Ladzinska ~ Abstract Figurative painter
- Eugeniusz Żak | Post-Impressionist painter
- Mariusz Lewandowski
- Tadeusz Makowski | Post-Impressionist/Cubist painter
- Balthus | Modern painter
- Tomek Sętowski, 1961 | Magical Realism painter
- Michał Świder, 1962
- Joanna Sierko-Filipowska, 1960
- Renata Brzozowska, 1977 | Flamenco dancers
- Klaudiusz Abramski, 1971
- Tomasz Rut, 1961 ~ Figurative painter
- Wojtek Siudmak, 1942 | Fantastic Hyperrealist painter
- Kacper Kalinowski
- Jacek Yerka, 1952 ~ Surrealist painter
- Joanna Zjawinska ~ Fantasy painter
- Leszek Sokol
- Bogusław Jagiełło, 1960 | Le Sfingi di Poznan
Maria Gruza | Figurative painter