Tomasz Rut

“I look for inspiration in the humanistic tradition of classical art. My canvases express the entire spectrum of human emotions from exhilaration and cheerfulness to contentment, melancholy, pain, and agony," explains Polish artist Tomasz Rut (pronounced root),  currently residing in Palm Beach, Florida.

 

Encouraged by his mother, a painter herself, young Tomasz Rut was introduced to the Pompeian Frescos and the magnificence of the Renaissance and the Baroque periods. Today these influences continue to inspire his stunning oil canvases and sweeping murals.  Tomasz Rut’s masterful illusionary works, both in scale and splendor, evoke the harmony and form of the master painters, including the flamboyance of Rubens, the finesse of Caravaggio and the emotion of Michelangelo. Rut's imaginary figures - centaurs, fauns, muses, and winged creatures - colorfully burst from the canvas with the grandiosity of Olympian Gods in active and dramatic poses. 

 

"Rut's mural size paintings are contemporary conversions of the classical vocabulary variously continued by Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and Rubens," explains Dorothy Keane-White, Art Curator and Director for Northwood University.  "In making them he returns us to antiquity by a double detour.  First, he sets in motion the charming unreal apparatus of the Quattro cento mise-en-scene, and more importantly its heroic nudity, vigorous modeling, expressive anatomic structure, powerful movement and fascinating physiogamy.  Tinged with sadness, his super-human youths play once more on Arcadian pipes - a motif also reprised by Matisse.  Alternatively, he offers us impossible delicate, gracile females –“still unravished bride(s) of quietness” - delimiting them with sylvan togas.

 

 

 

Alle Breve

 

 

 

 Allegrto Spirito

 

 

 

Ambiente

 

 

 

 Cadenza

 

 

 

 Ferocitas

 

 

 

Furiose

 

 

 

 Helencia

 

 

 

 In Tono

 

 

 

Sentio

 

 

 

Three Graces

 

 

 

 Veil of Truth