Formism

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Formism was an avant-garde art movement, started 1917 in Kraków and active in Zakopane and Lwów (partially also in Warsaw and Poznań) until 1922.

Participating artists included Tytus Czyżewski, Leon Chwistek (theory of the multiplicity of reality), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (theory of unity in multiplicity, Pure Form), Zbigniew Pronaszko, Andrzej Pronaszko, Konrad Winkler, August Zamoyski, Jan Hrynkowski, Tymon Niesiołowski, Jacek Mierzejewski. In Warsaw: Romuald Kamil Witkowski, Wacław Wąsowicz, Jerzy Zaruba, Mieczysław Szczuka; in Lwów: Leon Dołżycki, Ludwik Lille.

Works

Journal

The Formiści magazine was edited by Tytus Czyżewski, Konrad Winkler and Leon Chwistek and published in Kraków in 6 issues between October 1919 and 1921.

Issues

Formiści 2:5 (May 1921). Download (15 MB).
Formiści 2:6 (Jun 1921). Download (15 MB).

The above PDFs are sourced from Bibliothèque Kandinsky.

Writings and manifestos

  • Leon Chwistek, "Wielość rzeczywistości w sztuce" [The Plurality of Realities in Art], Maski 1-4 (Jan-Feb 1918); repr. in Przeglad Wspolczesny 9 (Apr-Jun 1924); repr. in Wielość rzeczywistości w sztuce i inne szkice literackie, 1960, pp 24-50; repr. in Wybór pism estetycznych, 2004, pp 3-20. (Polish) Chwistek proposed the theory of the "plurality of realities in art" as a reaction against the dualistic model of the avant-garde. Later on, in various interdisciplinary discussions about art, mathematics, poetry, architecture and politics, he argued against agitprop and the missionary stance of the avant-garde, in favour of an open, modern and transnational society.
  • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, "Nowe formy w malarstwie i wynikające stąd nieporozumienia", 1919. Formulates the principles of Pure Form. (Polish)
  • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Szkice estetyczne [Aesthetic Sketches], 1922. (Polish)
  • Leon Chwistek, Wielość rzeczywistości [The Plurality of Realities], Kraków: Zaklad graficzny 'Wisloka' w Jaśle, 1921, 96 pp; repr. in Chwistek, Pisma filozoficzne i logiczne, 1, 1961, pp 30-105. (Polish)

Literature

Documentary film

See also

Links


Avant-garde and modernist magazines

Poesia (1905-09, 1920), Der Sturm (1910-32), Blast (1914-15), The Egoist (1914-19), The Little Review (1914-29), 291 (1915-16), MA (1916-25), De Stijl (1917-20, 1921-32), Dada (1917-21), Noi (1917-25), 391 (1917-24), Zenit (1921-26), Broom (1921-24), Veshch/Gegenstand/Objet (1922), Die Form (1922, 1925-35), Contimporanul (1922-32), Secession (1922-24), Klaxon (1922-23), Merz (1923-32), LEF (1923-25), G (1923-26), Irradiador (1923), Sovremennaya architektura (1926-30), Novyi LEF (1927-29), ReD (1927-31), Close Up (1927-33), transition (1927-38).