6. Teresa
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On October 15, 1953 Andrzej Wróblewski married Teresa Waleria Rutt, a student of classical philology and history. They had three children: a son Andrzej, called Kitek, born in 1954 and two twin daughters Marta and Hanna, born in 1956. Teresa – the love of his life - becomes the artist’s inspiration and model, captured in countless sketches and paintings.
Among the best known is her 1955 portrait The Beach in which Wróblewski paints his wife in the pose of a reclining Venus. An immortal motif known in art history from Botticelli, Giorgione, through Titian, Velazquez, Canova, to Goya and Manet, to mention the most famous. Motif synonymous with the actual canon of female beauty over the ages. As an art historian, Wróblewski very consciously inscribes his beloved in this tradition, portraying the beauty ideal of the modern Woman – he creates the Venus of the 1950s. The group of tender family images in the artist's oeuvre includes countless small sketches, usually painted in ink, depicting Teresa during her daily maternal duties. Family portraits and sketches present Wróblewski not only as an outstanding artist but also as an affectionate husband and father for whom family life was the foundation of both, his personal as well as his artistic reality.
