Alina Szapocznikow│Paysage(s) humain(s)/Human landscape(s)

Alina Szapocznikow is remembered mainly as a sculptress, but one cannot ignore this much less conspicuous, though extremely important part of her artistic activity that is, her drawings. Particularly that in the last year of her life, it was the latter that were appreciated by a group of the most outstanding 20th century artists, namely Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Antoni Tàpies and Pierre Alechinsky who awarded Szapocznikow a prize for her collection of drawings from the year 1970, entitled 'Human Landscape [Paysage humain]', at the III International Drawing Exhibition in Moderna Galerija in Rijeka (Croatia). The above cycle, executed in pencil, ink and watercolour presents landscapes with certain elements of human figures inscribed into them - legs, hands, mouths and torsos. Moreover, the above landscapes pulsate with organic forms which are packed into them likewise muscles in the human body, whereas the long hair of the human figures appearing here and there, seems to merge smoothly with the line of the horizon. When looking at them, we seem to ask ourselves, whether they are still human figures or maybe already landscapes, or maybe the other way around? 
(Anna Zakiewicz, « On Alina Szapocznikow's Drawings », 'Capturing Life, Alina Szapocznikow - Drawings and sculptures', IRSA, 2004.)