Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz used the self-portrait in his graphic works very
frequently. The artist’s image appears throughout all periods of his work,
in various versions — as a face, a bust, or the entire figure, as a carrier of
various types of content. The entire oeuvre by Get-Stankiewicz has a very
personal dimension, regardless of whether a given work is considered as
applied graphics (posters, illustrations) or whether they were created as
a personal, ‘internal commission’. His famous self-portraits, coloured with
irony and humour, referenced the legacy of culture and art, as well as the
author’s contemporaneous socio-political reality; therefore, they are often
read as engaged and critically commenting on the reality. Art historians
consider Get-Stankiewicz to be a representative of the early post-modernist
tendencies in Polish art and one of the creators of the new figuration.
The presented work shows a scaled-up fingerprint of the artist. Although
there is no image of a face here, it is a type of self-portrait in the form of
the corporeal signature of a fingerprint.