Robert L.J. Zenik
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Robert L.J. Zenik (born March 24, 1950) is a poet, writer and eMedia artist. He was born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He is married to the artist Leona Czwartkowski.
He considers his literary contribution to the Sudbury community as "Representational Expressionism." Representational art simply means that we viewers are able to recognize an object (or objects) within the piece of art. Art with an immediately recognizable subject, depicted in ways that seek to resemble a figure, landscape or object. Expressionism is a German movement in literature and the other arts which was at its height between 1910 and 1925 - that is, in the period just before, during, and after World War I. Its chief precursors were artists and writers who had in various ways departed from realistic depictions of life and the world, by expressing in their art visionary or powerfully emotional states of mind. Edvard Munch's lithograph "The Scream" (1894) depicting, against a bleak background, a tense figure with distorted face uttering a scream of pure horror, is often taken to epitomize what became the expressionist mode. Prominent among the literary precursor of the movement in the nineteenth century were poets Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and above all the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg.
Expressionism is a revolt against the artistic and literary tradition of realism, both in subject matter and in style.
Zenik undertakes to express a personal vision - usually a troubled or tensely emotional vision - of human life and human society. He does this by exaggerating and distorting objective features of the outer world, and by embodying violent extremes of mood and feeling. His work depicts, describes, represents the experience of an individual standing alone and afraid in an industrial, technological, and urban society which is disintegrating into chaos.
Expressionists who are radical in their politics also project utopian views of a future community in a regenerate world.
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Complete Bibliography
Published Works
- Illusion (1981)
- Kiss (1982)
- Beyond Me (1983)
- To Dream (1984)
- Wheale's Year, (1985-1986)
- I Used To Fly (1986)
- Coombes' 1.5 Years, (1987-1988)
eMedia Publications
- William R. Coombes, Selected Writing of
- Leona Czwartkowski, Home Page, Streaming Audio/Video Poetry
- Tina Jean, Streaming Video Poetry
- Maurice G. Pilon, eComic Art
- Daniel W.J. Rheaume, Written, and Streaming Audio Poetry
Literary Contest
- Wordfires eWriting Contest (http://www.wordfires.com)
Television Production/Direction
- Wordfires Literary Art Television Series, 1986-1987
Anthologies Edited
- Tina Jean
- The Northern Poet
Awards
- Poet of the Year, C.S.P. World News, 1986
- City of Sudbury Poet, 1986
See also
External Links/References
- Robert L.J. Zenik's Home Page (http://zenik.amrssc.com/)