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And finally (because as a future student of this subject I should have done this probably sooner), the fifth image on my list is an illustration by Zdzisław Witwicki for a book called Przygody Krasnala Hałabały (your brain probably skipped that part as it is impossible to read if you are not Polish). 

I would like not to sound superficial, but well... It is just beautiful. The colours match each other perfectly - there are no half-lights,  they are firm, yet muted. Big, furry bear, a bold spill of black ink gives a composition a central character, which I find most attractive, even in my own works. The aesthetics are tender, sensitive, friendly for the eye and the heart. There is a flawless interpration of a winter, although artist used only white planes and cold, bright blue linear sketches of spruces. 

Again, one of the factors which helped me to choose the picture for the glorious ten was the fact, that this artwork also reminds me of my childhood. The small school and public libraries in Poland never had and still do not have many funds to buy new books for children, which surprisingly, I consider as a blessing. Even nowadays, you can find 50-years-old books on the shelves; fragile, brown pages smell like the past, and this is what the illustration above makes me think of - a trip to the library, somehow a holy ritual for a child like I used to be.