11th Theater Season

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

11th Theater Season

Entry/Object ID

2009.168

Description

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.

Artwork Details

Medium

Offset lithograph

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 Rosenberg

Made/Created

Artist

Wiktor Sadowski

Date made

1984

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Poland

Continent

Europe

Notes

Polish Europe, Poland

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

Recto R edge

Transcription

Sadowski 84

Material/Technique

ink in print

Type

Inscription

Location

BC

Transcription

Teatr im Jana Kochanowskiego w Opol, XI Opolskie Konfrontacje Teatralne

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

image

Width

26-3/8 in

Length

36-1/4 in

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

26-3/8 in

Length

36-3/4 in