Andrzej Malinowski

Andrzej Malinowski (born in 1947) is a Polish artist, painter, graphic designer, illustrator, and poster creator. He resides and works in France.

Biography In his youth, Andrzej Malinowski drew inspiration from the works of Vermeer and Rembrandt. In 1973, he graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the Illustration Department. After obtaining his diploma, he moved to Paris, where he continues to live and create. In 1982, he was granted French citizenship.

Andrzej Malinowski collaborated with the most prominent film directors. Those include: Andrei Tarkovsky (Nostalghia, 1983), Jerzy Skolimowski (Success Is the Best Revenge, 1984), Andrzej Wajda (The Possessed, 1988), Luc Besson (The Big Blue, 1988), Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Il sole anche di notte, 1989), Kenneth Branagh (Henry V, 1989), Bernardo Bertolucci (The Sheltering Sky, 1990), Jean-Jacques Beineix (IP5: L'île aux pachydermes, 1992, Mortal Transfer, 2001).

The artist gained international recognition for his movie poster for The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson, for which Malinowski received a Cesar Award nomination in 1989 from the French Academy of Arts and Film Techniques.

quote="Nostalgia has a significant influence on the artist's work. Everything that surrounds us from early childhood, memories not only of the beautiful moments but also the painful ones, shapes our personality." In the 1980s, he created covers and graphics for the French magazine L'Express and major newspaper Le Monde.

He was the head of the jury for the National "Film Poster" Competition of the French group Caisse d'Epargne. He participated multiple times in the Paris Salons ("Art en Capital" at the Grand Palais). Since the early nineties, Malinowski has been exclusively engaged in easel painting.

Work as a painter and legacy

The main features of Malinowski's paintings are unique character choreography, subtle expression, rare composition, play of light and shadow, and a richness of colors. A frequent motif is the figure of a woman.

From November 2008 to March 2009, Malinowski's works were exhibited at the Louis Senelecq National Museum – Lartigue Center. This was a solo exhibition titled "Silences," featuring sixty works by the artist. The exhibition was covered in publications such as the French-language magazine Azart – Le Magazine International de La Peinture.

Malinowski's paintings are displayed in galleries in Paris, the US, Argentina, and Japan. The artist's works are found in prestigious galleries such as Galeries Bartoux and Marciano Contemporary on Champs Elysées.

In 2005, the work of Malinowski was described by the French critic Thierry Sznytka in the pages of the magazine Arts – Actualités Magazine. In 2008, Valère-Marie Marchand also wrote about Malinowski's painting in the same magazine. Articles about Malinowski were also featured in Artistes en Direct (a magazine for leading illustrators) and Salon Artistique.

Recognized by the magazine Artysta i Sztuka for his "nonconformist, bold artistic approach" and "intense, thought-provoking technique," Malinowski is acknowledged both as a painter who has achieved "worldwide success", and as a poster artist who collaborated with top-class directors (Tarkovsky, Bertolucci, Besson, among others).