THE FANTASTIC ART OF JACEK YERKA

This extra large portfolio art book contains twenty-one of Polish fantasist Jacek Yerka's most amazing works. Each painting is beautifully reproduced in full colour and in a size that enables the viewer to fully appreciate the stunningly meticulous detail which this modern master brings to his art. Jacek Yerka has won international awards for his art, and has had exhibitions in Warsaw, Dusseldorf, Los Angeles, Paris and London. He works resides with his family, in a rural enclave of his native Poland. Born in Poland in 1952, Jacek yerka studied fine art and graphics prior to becoming a full-time artist in 1980. Yerka resisted the constant pressures of his instructors to adopt the less detailed, less realistic techniques that characterize so much of contemporary art. Instead, he stubbornly continued to work in the classic, meticulous Flemish style he still favors to this day .In the end, it was his teachers who eventually relented, finally recognizing their determined student as a brilliant  talent. Out of Print. Condition: Fine. Light cover wear with one slight corner bump.