THE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE HORSE
THE HORSE IN SPORT
Born in Warsaw, Boguslaw Lustyk graduated cum laude from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Prior to his first American exhibition at the Kentucky Horse Park in 1994, he exhibited throughout Europe and Australia.
During his career Lustyk has constantly changed the style and scope of his art. In 1995, he was selected as the Park's first artist-in-residence. From advertising graphics, posters, and book illustrations he has shifted to artistic graphics, linoleum prints, weavings, and serigraphs. He is also noted for his easel and wall paintings, portraits, nudes, and landscapes. He uses various techniques and mediums ( oil, water colors, and pastels. Lustyk works with passion, carrying himself into the world of imagination, reaching into the future, and drawing from his memories.
Regardless of medium or technique, the central figure in much of his work is the horse, which he sees as an allegory of life, energy, freedom, and beauty. This fascination has roots in his childhood in the Polish countryside. Still alive and vivid in the painter's memory are evening bonfires, watering the horses in the river, and bareback riding across the fields. Boguslaw Lustyk is both an expert on and an admirer of horses. He is the founder of numerous riding clubs and of the Polish Horse Show Revue.
His extensive knowledge of the psychology and anatomy of these magnificent animals is clearly reflected in his art.
Lustyk continues the traditions of his predecessors, the greatest representatives of romanticism: Delacroix, Gericault, Piotr Michalowski and Jozef Chelmonski. He is a successor to their romantic vision of horses. With art as the driving force of his life, Boguslaw's work is enriched by a synthesis of impressionism and surrealism. In the same way he progressed from poster design to artistic graphics, he is now experimenting with new and different techniques. Regardless of changing techniques and styles, in the end he always returns to the horse, the passion of his life.
Mr. Lustyk accepts commissions, and has a number of original works and prints available for purchase.