gouache, paper, 48.5 x 62.5 cm
"Unlike Nitschowa's sculptures, Lenica practiced non-objective art - non-geometric abstraction, known as Tashism (from the French: la tache - stain).
This new type of painting consists in composing the picture plane from many color spots, random in form, obtained by spilling, splashing or dripping paint onto the canvas from a certain distance. In this way, color arrangements are achieved, in which coincidence and the thought of the creator play an equal role.
The paintings created in this way can fulfill the function of merely pleasing or unpleasing to the eye decorative pattern, which could be successfully transferred to industry, as a print for textiles or "marble" for book binding; however, they can sometimes also have a stimulating effect on the viewer's imagination - with the color and silhouette of randomly arranged spots bringing associations with shapes known and remembered from observation of reality. Sometimes, in turn, the harmony of colors alone can accurately convey the mood of joy, sadness or wartime horror, with a strong suggestive effect on viewers.
Lenica's works, however, are unlikely to provoke allusions to the world of realities and experiences."
Bożena Kowalska, Statues and flowers, "Sztandar Młodych" 1958, no. 216
