Name/Title
11th Theater SeasonEntry/Object ID
2009.168Description
This is a Polish poster advertising the 11th Polish Theatral Conference in 1984. Made up of purple hues, the composition consists of the side profile of a man which looks like it is split and curling like paper. Inside the slit is a sphere. The face is wearing a white, jester-like spiky collar. The inscriptions lay at the bottom of the poster, with the theater name (Teatr im Jana Kochanowskiego w Opolu) above the conference name (XI Opolskie Konfrontacje Teatralne). Theater poster.Context
Born in 1956 in Oleandry, Wiktor Sadowski was a student of Henryk Tomaszewski (artist of 2009.163), graduating from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1981.
Sadowski’s poster advertises the 11th Polish Theatral Conference in 1984, which has continued to be celebrated annually. From their website,
“Opolskie Theatre Confrontations is one of the most important theatre festivals in the country, which has been hosting the Polish classic on the Jana Kochanowskiego stages of the Theatre for 48 years. The festival is the final of the nationwide Competition for the Insert Stage of Polish Literature “Klasyka Żywa”, organized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw. The aim of the ‘Klasyka Żywa’ Competition is to strengthen the interest of contemporary artists of Polish theatre with old literature and to show its stage potential.”Acquisition
Notes
Collection of DePaul University. gift of Martin RosenbergEthnography
Cultural Region
Country
PolandContinent
EuropeNotes
Polish
Europe, PolandInscription/Signature/Marks
Type
InscriptionLocation
Recto R edgeTranscription
Sadowski 84Material/Technique
ink in printType
InscriptionLocation
BCTranscription
Teatr im Jana Kochanowskiego w Opol, XI Opolskie Konfrontacje TeatralneLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Poster, TheaterNomenclature Primary Object Term
PosterNomenclature Class
Advertising MediaNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsGetty 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 FacetLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Theater postersDimensions
Dimension Description
imageWidth
26-3/8 inLength
36-1/4 inDimension Description
sheetWidth
26-3/8 inLength
36-3/4 in