I'm Katarzyna Dietrych-Kuzak
A Visual Artist & The Lover of Fairy-Tales
Why do I still create art?
I've been creating for a long time, and the only thing I can say why I create... I have no idea, but the reasons are unimportant.
It probably depends on many things. Depending on my mood on a given day, I could say that it's a decision for emotional reasons and easy way to express them in a visual way.
I could say too, I work on understand the world, or a narcissistic coping mechanism with desire to be famous, therapy, for fun, and etc.
To be honest often I did it for money, but that doesn't mean it is worse art, because creation is my profession and my passion since 30 years, since when I graduated MFA from the Academy of Fine Art in Lódź.
Every reason is good and true. Anyway, there is an internal compulsion and an internal imperative in me. If I didn't create, I would feel really terrible. I would not be myself.
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FAIRY TALE ART
GALLERY
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
FAIRY-TALES & THE FOLK TALES & MYTHS
There are many reasons to love the fairy-tales and the folk tales and myths.
I find as many reasons,
if not more, to paint them.
Once upon a time,
many years ago, I was a little girl who liked to listen and to read fairytales. Of course, the book had to be beautifully illustrated beceuse I liked the most was to imagine fairy tales based on a good illustration.
I loved the bloody, savage folktales, the ones about tricking and killing giants, about heroes and heroines performing impossible tasks with the help of animals or fairies. I read the ones about young women who married monsters.
I read the ones about poor men who married royalty. I read the ones about trickery, disguises, promises, nobility, blood, and luck.
By reading fairy tales, I have always waited and focused of happy endings.
REAL-LIFE VS. FAIRY TALE
Now I know it's not true ... and it's good that it is...
I still read fairy-tales, those in literary examples and the raw ones in the original version.
I discover the beauty of fairy tales in their original versions without educational "embellishments".
I don't mean the traditional "happy and long" ending.
Can there really be nothing more exciting than getting rich and getting married?
It's like crossing the point where nothing interesting will happen.
The characters freeze in place and at the perfect moment they calm down, feel comfortable, age and die.
Is that really what the fairy tale is about?
THE ARCHETYPES AND THE SYMBOLS
Why do I still love fairy tales and read them passionately?
The Archetypes and the symbols. Archetypes and symbols are what attracts me the most in literature and art. Nowhere can we find a simpler and more direct representation of archetypes and symbols than in myths, fairy tales and folk tales.
Fairytales are old. There’s a pattern to them.
They serve a purpose.
They reflect primal hopes and fears. They’re deep in the same way horror movies and myths are deep.
Fairy tales and folk tales deal with universal themes.
They are often concerned with personality development and with matters residing largely
in our unconscious minds.
To skip all the psychological jargon, we feel them and relate to them intuitively, as well as understand them consciously, and that makes them quite special.
A fairy tale book is like meditation or hypnosis to me.
USING COLOR PENCILS TO TELL STORY
Illustrating fairy tales is amazing.
Whether I want to illustrate the text carefully, more concentrate on analyzing it, or just find new ways to discover a famous fairy tale, this way of creativity surely rocks my world.
This is not a typical illustration. This is an independent art novel.
This is a story full of magic of the fate of man.
These are artistic works inspired by the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, H. Ch. Andersen, Ch. Perrault and many other world fairy tales.
Each work is the fruit of an attempt to deeply understand the meaning of the literary message. These paintings are the result of deep reflection and meditation on the meaning of existence. On the other hand, it is a fairy-tale picture full of joy.
The fairy tales illustrations presented here live their own independent lives. They are not a summary of fairy tales, on the contrary.
Each work brings new values,
... and discovering them is up to you!