Acrylic, canvas, 116 x 89 cm
Signature on front
The featured painting titled. "Race" is a dynamic, figurative and monumental composition showing galloping horses in full speed - a symbol of strength, competition, freedom and unbridled energy.
The artist builds up the form with broad, decisive brushstrokes and a clear texture of paint, achieving the effect of intense movement and compositional tension. The silhouettes of the animals intermingle and overlap, creating a compact, rhythmic structure that almost "comes out" towards the viewer.
The color scheme of the painting is based on warm tones of ochre and broken yellows, contrasting with dynamic accents of red, white and gray, which enhances the impression of speed and drama of the scene. The background has been constructed synthetically, without a literal landscape, so that all the attention is focused on the expression of movement and tension between the horse figures.
The work is an example of the artist's mature style, in which realistic representation of form is combined with painterly expression and strong gesture, characteristic of his animalistic work.
The large-format 116 × 89 cm (2020) painting is among the artist's more elaborate works and is a unique collector's item for lovers of his paintings.
The authenticity of the work is confirmed by photographs taken directly in the artist's studio.
Prices of comparable works by Krzysztof Jarocki have reached up to PLN 30,000on the market .
A real treat for collectors of Krzysztof Jarocki's paintings and lovers of figurative and animalistic art.
Krzysztof Jarocki - painter of horses, dynamics and "breath" of nature
Krzysztof Jarocki (born 1959) is a Polish painter, draughtsman and sculptor, recognized primarily as an artist who consistently develops animalism with the dominant motif of the horse. His works build tension between the realism of anatomy and painterly synthesis - the horse in Jarocki's work is not a "portrait of an animal," but a carrier of energy, rhythm and freedom, captured in a split second.
Roots and creative path
The artist was born in Bialystok, grew up in the Podlasie town of Bokiny; he studied at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (1979-1985). His biography strongly resonates with his Podlasie sensitivity to landscape, light and animal - which translates into the naturalness with which he builds the movement and muscle tension of the horse.
The main theme: the horse - movement, lightness, majesty
In auction and gallery descriptions, Jarocki is consistently portrayed as an artist who is fascinated by movement, and his works combine dynamism and lightness. It is this "contradiction" (mass and momentum versus elegance) that is one of Jarocki's most distinctive painting signatures.
Style and technique (why these paintings are "instantly recognizable")
Jarocki works in both oil on canvas and mixed techniques; he often operates with a definite abbreviation, sketch, nervous line and stain, which he then "closes" with light. The result is a vivid, "breathing" painting, in which the background is sometimes fog, air or movement - and the horse emerges from it as from a film frame.
Exhibitions and the equestrian community
The source materials emphasize that the artist holds exhibitions at the Horse Racing Course during important events of the season and in Janow Podlaski on the occasion of Arabian horse auctions; he is also known for his live painting shows.
"The Jarocki Family" - a collector's context
In your earlier inquiries, the subject of the "artistic generation" of the Jarocki family came up - and indeed, the theme of joint family presentations appears in the available descriptions: "Jarocki - Painting and Sculpture" (with his sculptor brothers and son Jędrzej) was shown at the Museum of Hunting and Riding in the Royal Baths Park in Warsaw, among others .
In addition, it is noted, among other things, the co-organization of the exhibition "Narrow-backed Horses" (ZUM Gallery, Elblag) and a solo exhibition in Marbella (Excellence Art Gallery).
