Puppet Theater

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Puppet Theater

Entry/Object ID

2009.166

Description

This is a Polish theater poster advertising a play. The composition looks like a piece work collage, with a blue stamp-like shape as the background. In the foreground two faces in profile turn toward each other, with a red man on the left, and a green woman on the right. The woman has one horn protruding out of the top of her head, while the man has a multitude of horns that intertwine with hers. Black text lies on a red background in the bottom right corner (also where the year 1981 is inscribed), while more white text on a black background is in the bottom right corner . Theater poster.

Artwork Details

Medium

Offset lithograph

Context

Get-Stankiewicz was born in 1942 in Oszmiana, Belarus, but most of his career took place in Wroclaw, Poland. The Rosenberg Collection notes that, “The 1970’s saw a painterly emphasis and increasing influence from outside of Warsaw. The Wroclaw Four reflected the new emerging artists; Jan Jaromir Aleksiun, Jerzy Czerniawski, Eugeniusz Get Stankiewicz and Jan Sawka. Their approach included more irony, paradox and symbolism.”

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Martin Rosenberg

Made/Created

Artist

Eugeniusz Get Stankiewicz

Date made

1981

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Poland

Continent

Europe

Notes

Europe Poland

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

Bottom

Transcription

[text in print]

Material/Technique

ink in print

Type

Inscription

Location

verso BL

Transcription

Cena 40 zl

Material/Technique

ink stamp

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Poster, Theater

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Poster

Nomenclature Class

Advertising Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

posters, information artifacts, information forms (objects), theater (discipline), theater arts, performing arts (discipline), arts (broad discipline), humanities, disciplines (concept)

Hierarchy Name

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

Facet

Objects Facet, Activities Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Theater posters

Legacy Lexicon

Class

WORKS ON PAPER

Dimensions

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

26-1/4 in

Length

37 in