«Brzozowski's canvasses began to be dominated in the formal realm almost equally by tattered areas of intense color and sharp, convulsive lines. He energized his paintings by using bold, reverberating colors. In his drawings, which for this artist were an autonomous activity rather than something that served his painting, this function was taken over by a delicate, sometimes unpredictable line. He continued these explorations in subsequent years creating a series of works enchanting for the nearly alchemic knowledge of pigments he demonstrated in creating them .»

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«Rajmund Ziemski (1930-2005) He debuted at  The National Exhibition of Young Visual Art „Against War — Against  Fascism“ at the Warsaw Arsenal (1955). Later, during the „thaw“ he  joined an art group centred around Marian Bogusz and his „Krzywe Koło“  Gallery. To boot, in 1959 Ziemski took part in the 3rd Modern Art  Exhibition in Warsaw. The artist's statement about this aspect of his work:   » During the period of the Arsenal exhibition, and also later in  1956-57 my paintings came closer to figurative art. I dwelt in the world  of known realities, and these realities were enough for the content I  wanted to show. But then it turned out that I needed to find forms  somewhat resembling synthesis, forms which create not  derivative-repetitive, but forms with evocative style fitting for the  expected result."

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Hidetoshi Nagasawa (30 October 1940 – 24 March 2018) was a Japanese sculptor and architect, who lived and worked in Italy from 1967 until his death in 2018 «Strongly evocative as well as being of highly symbolic and lyrical value, the works of Hidetoshi Nagasawa (Tonei, 1940) are always intensely permeated with Far Eastern philosophy, thereby leading to research that syncretically combines the spiritual heritage of the East and of the West, filtered through crossreferences and ideas stemming from an experiential and human dimension that he has never disregarded. The artist and his family moved from Manchuria to Japan, and already in the 1950s he became familiar with the various trends in avant-garde art through his contact with the Gutaj group as well as by regularly visiting the independent exhibitions organized by the magazine “Yamiuri.”

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Roy Oxlade ( 1929 — 2014) was an English painter, writer on art, and an art educator. Oxlade is quoted in a 2013 exhibition review: «Painting to me is like a room of the imagination. It’s up to me what I do with it. I choose its size and its materials – usually canvas and oil paint. At the beginning its relationships don’t amount to much – it’s a rectangle in a jumble of art history I relate to. There would not be much fun in leaving the room empty, a passive – one colour field – a blank canvas. And entirely abstract forms place too many restrictions on dialogue. So I have put in some other stuff, some characters, some actors – tables, pots, colours, easels, lamps, scribbles, figures and faces to interact with each other. I adjust the temperature, open the windows, shut the windows, throw things out, change the lighting.»

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Leonardus Petrus Paulus «Lon» Pennock (1945 -  2020 ) was a Dutch sculptor, environmental artist, monumental artist and photographer.
Pennock studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague from 1962 to 1967. He then continued his studies with a French scholarship to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1968.In 1969 he received both the Buys van Hulten price as the Jacob Maris incentive price. Twice he was awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Culture, Recreation and Social Work in 1973 and in 1979. Pennock was trained as a traditional sculptor, but quickly turned into an abstract, even minimalist artist. Pennock lived and worked in The Hague, where he was born

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Contemporary Artist from Sweden

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Jimmy DeSana ( 1949 –1990) was an American artist, and a key figure in the East Village punk art scene of the 1970s and 1980s.DeSana's photography has been described as «anti-art»   in its approach to capturing images of the human body, in a manner ranging from «savagely explicit to purely symbolic».

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«Emil Schumacher, born in the Westphalian town of Hagen in 1912, began a three-year degree at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dortmund when he was 20 years old. He started working as an independent artist in 1935 and founded the artist and exhibition association „junger westen“ in 1947 together with a few other artists. The style of his work changed drastically in 1950.
He abandoned painting objects and turned towards the expressive power of painting alone. Colour itself gradually became the decisive element of his works.»

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Koji Enokura ( 1942 – 1995) was a Japanese painter and installation artist.
He was one of the key members of Mono-ha, a group of artists who became prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Mono-ha artists explored the encounter between natural and industrial materials, such as stone, steel plates, glass, light bulbs, cotton, sponge, paper, wood, wire, rope, leather, oil, and water, arranging them in mostly unaltered, ephemeral states. The works focus as much on the interdependency of these various elements and the surrounding space as on the materials themselves. From the beginning of the 1970s, Enokura stained paper, cloth, felt, and leather with oil and grease. He also discolored the floors and walls of galleries and outdoor spaces. These installations are no longer extant but are documented in photographs.

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Kurt Trampedach (1943 – 2013) was a Danish painter and sculptor.Trampedach studied at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1963 to 1969. He had his artistic breakthrough by the end of the sixties. He has often made distorted self-portraits and portraits of his own wife. Portraits of horses, and of larged headed babies were other favorite motifs. His dark style was particularly inspired by Rembrandt van Rijn. Painting was a way for him to work with his own psyche, with frequent bouts of depression and mania. In 1983 Trampedach's studio in Copenhagen was set on fire destroying many paintings. In 1984 he received the Eckersberg Medal.

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