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Portrait of the Artist Joseph Schwartzbawm's Metarealism
A Chicago artist born in Krakow, Joseph Schwartzbawm, plants a narrative in oils and acrylics. His cluttered East European studio houses Krishnamurti, Meher Baba, and Theosophical texts beside a dilapidated radio and early-bound palettes. He describes metarealism as a fusion of realism and surreal, metaphysical expression, aiming for universal creativity and harmony amid modern mechanization. He survived Nazi camps, immigrated in 1952, and now channels social messages through symbolic works urging humanized, peaceful coexistence.
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Joseph Schwarzbaum
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Krishnamurti
Meher Baba
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