Bazyli Albiczuk was a Polish artist who died in 1995.
His formal education finished after only 4 grades of grammar school (sic!). No art classes, no master, would you believe?
He taught himself how to play violin at the age of 15 and he would take the instrument whenever the mood took him. He would stop working or talking to someone and he would play.
To everybody's suprise, he also wrote poems in Ukrainian which were found when he died.
His paintings represent mostly his garden which he created himself and cherished until the end. He was even called "a painter of gardens".
Needless to say, his last wish was: "Please, save my garden".
However soon after his death, his house was sold, the garden ran wild but the paintings remained..
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Art was his life. He decided not to have family, so that he could concentrate on painting.
Despite lack of formal education, his works were acquired by galleries and museums.
There is a little bit of Rousseau and Chagall in his works...
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Hopefully Albiczuk will also be recognized internationally one day.
"I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then."
L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams
I saw few originals of his paintings in Biala Podlaska , Museum , Poland
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