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Article: From Poland: an emerging artist: not yet available on Amazon.com, Rafal Olbinski's exciting book on women must be ordered from Poland. Because the book contains graphic material, the Post recommends parental guidance to purchasers in homes with young children. Available from the publisher, Polpharma, Warsaw, Poland.(POST BOOKSHELF)(Motifs and Variations: Rafal Olbinski Women)(Book review)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
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- March 1, 2006
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Motifs and Variations: Rafal Olbinski Women 176 pages, $50.00
"Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having," wrote the oft-quoted American author and editor Christian Bovee. That sentiment is borne out throughout the history of art, where the feminine motif has been as potent a force for artistic inspiration as has the world's religions.
Shakespeare said, "Women are the books, the arts, the academies, that show, contain, and nourish all the world." That sentiment is foremost in the works of a rising new Polish-American illustrator, Rafal Olbinski, whose art is now available in a new book, Motifs and ...