Paso Doble [Rumanian film poster]

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2008.99

Description

A detached mouth being held up to a face with two sets of fingers. Romanian Film Poster. Cinema.

Artwork Details

Medium

Offset lithograph

Context

Walkuski is of the later Polish School of Posters in the final years when Poland was under communist rule which ended in 1991. The Polish School of Posters was most active during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, when post-World War 2 Poland suffered under strict Soviet Rule. In all other art forms in Poland during this period, artists had to adhere to state-imposed Social Realist standards, because the government wanted to promote tourism, film, theater and television from their state-run Ministry of Art and Culture, artists in Polish School of Posters had artistic freedom and created bold, avant-garde designs for these promotional purposes that often-had subversive meanings

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul University, gift of Patricia Rosenberg

Made/Created

Artist

Wieslaw Walkuski

Date made

1982

Transcription

produkcja: Bucharest Studios, 1985

Translation

production: Bucharest Studios, 1985

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Cinema

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Theater

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Poster

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Building, Performing Arts

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Cultural & Recreational Structures

Nomenclature Class

Advertising Media

Nomenclature Class

Structures

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 01: Built Environment Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

posters, information artifacts, information forms (objects)

Hierarchy Name

Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)

Facet

Objects Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Cinema, Posters, Film posters

Dimensions

Width

26-1/4 in

Length

38 in