Sprawa Dantona [Danton Affair]

Print

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2011.43

Description

Two sides of a black and white pixelated face seem to come together, creating a cyclops like figure with a prominent eye. The eye seems to be crying out splattered tears in blue and red. The inscriptions are in white and in each corner of the poster. Theater.

Artwork Details

Medium

Photomechanical print

Context

Cieslewicz was Polish born but French national graphic artist, illustrator, and photographer, however, unlike the previous artists, he did not attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, instead, he attended the School of Artistic Industry in Lvov, Krakow’s Fine Art Lycee, and Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, so he was quite well educated. Cieslewicz was another of the more prominent figures within the Polish Poster School, as his work has been widely exhibited and written about, with one of the most significant instances being his inclusion in a MOMA exhibit. The “Polish Poster School” was a group of artists who not only used posters as a medium for artist expression but for general expression as well. Artists in the Polish Poster School used painterly techniques and intense symbolism in order to place their posters in the context of fine art as well as politically charged art.

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Martin Rosenberg

Made/Created

Artist

Cieslewicz, Roman

Date made

1974

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Poland

Continent

Europe

Inscription/Signature/Marks

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

Theater posters, Posters

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall

Width

26-1/4 in

Length

38 in