Inborn diligence and responsibility combined with the education at such outstanding artists' soon brought abundant collections of prizes, honorable mentions and flattering reviews, and afterwards, in 1984, the decision of The Ministry of Culture and Arts of granting the artist the professional artist license, which is a very rare nomination.

“[…] Alexander Kowal is an artist having a mastered craftsmanship, an efficient and precise technique. In his painting we observe three-dimensional solving of landscape motifs. The painting is fresh and color sensitive, achieved with various formal methods and possible to be given a common denominator of reflectiveness and intimacy.

For at least 20 years, in every Alexander Kowal's artistic conception, there has been that striking independence of the technique, which is entirely subordinate to the idea of the work. This results in some conscious heterogeneousness of images, impossible to be pigeonholed. Kowal is always a searching artist. For many years it has been the quest for expressing artistic reflections and sensitivity, for a content related depiction with an absolute freedom and servility of techniques […]”

Alexander Kowal: “A work of art is, in my opinion, good as soon as it makes the receiver think, evokes subjective connotations, reflections and emotions. ”