Crash

Print

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Crash

Entry/Object ID

2011.47

Description

Upper shoulders and head of a man with short brown hair and red tinted skin. The word “CRASH” in striped red and green with yellow borders capital lettering smashes out of the man’s face, with the “H” still partially obscured by his face. Jazz poster.

Artwork Details

Medium

Photomechanical print

Context

Jan Sawka is definitely the most well-known and prolific artist among the Polish Poster School group held at DPAM. 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. Sawka was not only a graphic artist, but an architect, painter, sculptor and more. His creative innovations held wide influence, and Sawka has an extensive exhibition and publication history that continues through to today.

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum

Made/Created

Artist

Jan Sawka

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Poland

Continent

Europe

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

CL

Transcription

"Crash"

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Poster

Nomenclature Class

Advertising Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

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

Posters