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color which the pastel artist can achieve by rubbing jazz musician can turn a well-known jazz standard into a
colored sticks into a rough cardboard surface. musical surprise by improvising. Many of his pastel works
However, what makes Miłek stand out from among average lead beyond a literally understood motif (whether bottles,
painters laboring with their brushes is not the ingenuity fragments of city architecture or synthetic portrayals
of his themes but his “absolute pitch” as far as color of human figures) towards contemplation of pure color,
is concerned which enables Miłek to create surprising towards very direct, almost primeval discovery of the

harmonies using familiar and trite themes, just like a world. The painter’s creativity in finding new hues can

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54  PIETA, 2016 OIL PASTEL ON PAPER 39,5X27,5 IN. | 100X70 CM.
MEDITATION, 2016 OIL PASTEL ON PAPER 39,5X27,5 IN. | 100X70 CM.