The View from the Faculty of Painting (2025)Oil painting
by Eliza Kołodziej

This is the view you see when you step out of the Faculty of Painting building at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. You’re looking at the “gates” of the University of Warsaw, standing right there across the street. I saw it every time I left the studio.
Have I chosen right? Will I ever know? Or was there ever another path for me, given what I’ve lived through and all the whirlwinds that shaped me?

I’ll never know. I’ve always wanted to pursue my scientific side one day. I don’t see myself as a humanist — I’ve just been good at drawing, then painting, and I followed that path for a few years. But after a quarter of life, you start to grasp what “limited time on Earth” might actually mean.

Will I ever get the chance to try everything I want to experience? No. Will I always choose right? Absolutely not. And yet, despite this terrifying realization, I do things wholeheartedly — even while imagining my life on the other side of Krakowskie Przedmieście Street. I think I would still have the same doubts, the same questions.

The painting is ready to hang and will be delivered in secure, multi-layered packaging, insured and tracked to ensure its safety during transport. Each work comes with a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity, confirming its originality.

Materials used:

Oil paint on canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 30 x 40 x 4cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed certificate of authenticity
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Architecture and cityscapes

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