Poster for the 26th International Jazz Festival showing a piano keyboard with key letters inscribed displayed over a black background. Overlaid is an abstract mix of pink, purple, blue, and orange colors and lines. The text “26mfpj” in large font over the left of the piano with Finish script above and the festival date in top right corner.
Artwork Details
Medium
Offset lithograph
Context
This piece by Piotr Kunce is a much more contemporary example of the Polish Poster tradition as it was made in 1999, after the fall of communism in Poland. Kunce attended the Academy of Fine Arts Krakow and graduated with a degree in poster design and lithography. Kunce went on to work as the Head of the Poster Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts Krakow (his alma mater) beginning in 1981. Kunce’s work has been featured in a wide variety of international exhibitions in the 21st century. Kunce was a key figure in continuing the traditions of Polish poster design after the medium became less prominent due to the fall of communism and ability for artists to work in other mediums (https://piotrkunce.eurotone.eu/). Kunce is still alive and working today. This specific poster was created for the polish based International Jazz Piano Festival in 1999.
Acquisition
Notes
Collection of DePaul University, gift of Patricia Rosenberg
Made/Created
Artist
Piotr Kunce
Date made
1999
Ethnography
Cultural Region
Country
Poland
Continent
Europe
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Inscription
Location
TR
Transcription
“Kalisz 26 - 28 listopada 1999”
Type
Inscription
Location
TL
Transcription
“26 Międzynarodowy Festiwal Pianistów Jazzowych”
Type
Inscription
Location
CL
Transcription
“26 mfpj”
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Poster, Music
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)
