1986 Polish Theatre Poster, Witkacy - Janulka, Corka Fizdejki (Janulka, Daughter of Fizdejko) - Sadowski

Description

Date: 1986
Size: 26 x 38 inches
Artist: Wiktor Sadowski

About the Artist: Wiktor Sadowski is a Polish artist working … more Date: 1986
Size: 26 x 38 inches
Artist: Wiktor Sadowski

About the Artist: Wiktor Sadowski is a Polish artist working in poster, illustration and painting. He was born in Oleandry, Poland in 1956. He graduated in 1981 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in Tomaszewski's studio.

About the Poster: Beginning in the 1950s and through the 1980s, the Polish School of Posters combined the aesthetics of painting with the succinctness and simple metaphor of the poster. It developed characteristics such as painterly gesture, linear quality, and vibrant colors, as well as a sense of individual personality, humor, and fantasy. It was in this way that the polish poster was able to make the distinction between designer and artist less apparent.

Polish posters have come to stand apart from the advertising design conventions fostered in Europe during the 20th century. It was during the communist regime, a time when culture was closely monitored by the state, that Polish artists found liberation in poster art. Ironically, this foremost public art form became ground for individual expression. During that period, the cultural institutions, of theatre and cinema especially, flourished as they were funded by government agencies. Artists freshly out of the fine arts academy flocked towards poster production as the demand for this art was rapidly growing. The result became some of the most unique and expressive posters the world has ever seen - and artworks in themselves.

About the play: Janulka, Fizdejka's daughter. Tragedy in 4 acts - a drama by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz written in 1923. It tells the story of the Neo-Teutonic Knights who, under the leadership of Grand Master Gottfried, attack and colonize barbaric Lithuania. The untamed and backward Lithuanians are supposed to help the civilized and progressive Neo-Teutonic Knights satisfy their metaphysical hunger and feel the so desired strangeness of existence. The main topics discussed by Witkacy in this drama are the decay of civilization and the all-encompassing human degeneration.

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