The paintings of Professor Juliusz Joniak possess unique poetics and style. Critics identify here distinctive features of colourism but actually this art is individual, original, of excellent workshop and belonging to this specific artist. Nature, Truth, Beauty and Good are values indisputably fundamental in the evolution of humanity and these are also the values followed by Professor Juliusz Joniak in his life and artistic credo. Transferring neutral landscape into the language of art is trying to penetrate scenery spiritually and intellectually and to express the changeability of nature by artistic means.  This changeability which depends on the time of day, the season, the weather as well as the mood and emotions accompanying the act of creating, seems to be the key to understand Professor’s paintings. The same landscape is never the same. In this context, a painting is a permanent trace of a moment, of an impression and a revelation; it opposites the realm of passing. In my view, Professor Joniak paid most attention to colour and composition already at the beginning of his artistic way; at the same time he was exploring the traditional canons of beauty in art and finding natural landscape as the main source of inspiration. In time, he ceased to experiment and created his own original style which means seeing a hundred of paintings and identifying Joniak’s at a glance. The most dominating artistic mean in Joniak’s paintings is colour or actually the abundance of colour. His colour builds up the mood, proves the beauty of nature and enchants the viewer, therefore his paintings is repleted with joy, positive moods and some undefined metaphysical optimism.  No matter whether it is a pure landscape, a landscape with some human traces or a depiction of a municipal area, the enchantment of the master upon the theme is always observable.
Metaphysical depth of Professor’s paintings proves that the artist rejects simple reproduction of beauty but is interested in its creation. For a painter a painting is an independent existence. It is born in his mind, then it is created on canvas and starts to live its own life in order to make viewers think, reflect, affect and enchant. Professor Joniak does not formulate any definitions, manifestoes or theoretical framework with respect to his paintings. Although he believes that paintings can be a way or a form of expressing oneself, what actually stays on canvas presents only a bit of his life, experiences and thoughts most of which are impossible to express via means of colour. 

                                                                                                                                                                    Jerzy Skrobot