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In “Introduction” I am indicating the relations between Józef Czapski’s art and the world of ideas and values of Polish Romanticism, and foremost with writings by Cyprian Kamil Norwid who, just like Czapski himself, all his life created “an artist’s diary” of words and images, which was a record of his thoughts and impressions brought by the time he happened to live in. Czapski appears to be an adherent of the idea that art is a medium for reaching the “total reality” which is a form of incorporating primal visions, idealistic in their very matter, by using the rules of painting (already understood in the 20th-century manner) – as incorporation of a mystery present, according to the artist, in the surrounding us nature – that apply autonomously comprehended, purely visual means of painterly expression.