Karaluchy (Cockroaches)

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Karaluchy (Cockroaches)

Entry/Object ID

2009.169

Description

This is a Polish theater poster advertising the play Karaluchy. The background is a gradient of red, yellow, and blue going downwards. A man in a red jumper takes up the right side of the poster, who seems to be minorly ripping into the background to reveal an even deeper blue color. On the left side of the composition, a girl hangs from a rope attached to the man’s arm, and her legs are wrapped around one of his. She is wearing a blue jumper and a cap on her head. On the top left, the tile is written in text along with pivotal figures for the play. In the bottom left going vertically there is smaller text.

Artwork Details

Medium

Offset lithograph

Context

There is little information about Franus Maslewski, other than the fact he is listed as the artist on DPAM’s entry. His work is a Polish theater poster advertising the play Karaluchy, which premiered on March 5, 1983. From the Encyclopedia of Polish Theater, “The Nowy Theatre prepared another premiere - this time in the Wanda Warskan's Piwnica - a drama written in 1893 by the then eight-year-old Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ‘Karaluchy.’ The director of the performance is Zbigniew Mich, who used fragments of several dramatic works, notes, recordings of young Witkacy’s scenes and poems for the implementation of the new play.”

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Martin Rosenberg

Made/Created

Artist

Maslewski, Franus

Date made

1984

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Poland

Continent

Europe

Notes

Europe Poland

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

Recto TL

Transcription

Karaluchy [additional text]

Material/Technique

ink in print

Type

Inscription

Location

Recto BL

Transcription

[signature] 1984 [additional text]

Material/Technique

ink in print

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

38 in