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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885 - 1939) Painter,art theorist,writer, playwright, philosopher. Son of Stanislaw Witkiewicz - painter and art theorist. Studied in Fine Art Academy in Cracow at Josef Mehoffer (1905-1909), made several trips to Italy, France and Germany during this period. In 1914 he took part in the expedition to Australia led by the famous ethnographer Bronislaw Malinowski. Years 1914-1918 spent in St.Petersburg serving in Russian Army as an officer. From this period come the first pastel works - portraits and expressionist compositions. In the years 1918-1924 Witkiewicz joined the group "Formists", creating oil compositions according to invented by himself theory of "pure form". After 1924 he limited his work to "Portrait manufacture of S.I.Witkiewicz" - creating pastel portraits of 5 basic types: A,B,C,D. He used to portrait famous people of the time. In 1928-1932 Witkiewicz experimented with drug effect to painting - using drugs like cocaine or peyotl on himself and painting. His works of this period often bear artist's mention about the kind and dose of drugs he was using when working at the painting. 
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