When I was back in design school, I had the privilege of studying, for four years, with the enormously gifted, Lubomir Tomaszewski. Even now, some twenty years later, I can't recall seeing another artist, sculptor or painter, with as unique and compelling a sense of form and beauty as Tomaszewski. The manner in which he renders the human, or animal form, whether in metal, stone, ceramics, or as he sometimes does, painting in large format with a blow torch, defies words. Whether a small figure that you could hold in your hand, or, a massive sculpture sketched with boulders that look like they are levitated, he has a way with materials that is all his own, and, it is wonderful.As a professor, he said that his job was to make geniuses of us all. I thought it impossible, but now I understand what he set about to do.
Wounded several times while fighting in the Polish resistance during World War II, Tomaszewski is a man of iron. Yes, as Picasso rightly said, "Art is war." Tomaszewski fought back by creating images that show how life should be.
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