Another volume from the BoSzArt Plakty / Posters series series devoted to Polish Posters art.
Bilingual edition in Polish and English.
Mini Album 8" x 6" x 0.5", Hardcover, 64 pages with 60 pictures.
Another album in the Posters series, this time on Tomasz Bogusławski, a graphic designer and teacher working with the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Gdańsk. The author of a number of book covers as well as theatre and patriotic posters characterised by the use of everyday items. Bogusławski’s art has won acclaim at exhibitions in Europe, America and Asia. The album is prefaced by Zdzisław Schubert, and the graphic design has been prepared by Błażej Ostoja Lniski.
Kolejny album ze znanej serii Plakaty tym razem poświęcony został Tomaszowi Bogusławskiemu, grafikowi projektantowi i pedagogowi związanemu z Akademią Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku oraz tamtejszą Polsko-Japońską Wyższą Szkołą Technik Komputerowych. Autor wielu okładek do książek oraz plakatów teatralnych i patriotycznych, charakteryzujących się wykorzystywaniem w swojej pracy przedmiotów codziennego użytku. Twórczość Bogusławskiego doceniono na wielu wystawach w Europie, Ameryce i Azji. Album słowem wstępnym opatrzył Zdzisław Schubert, natomiast za projekt graficzny odpowiada Błażej Ostoja Lniski.
About the Polish School of Posters:
The world-renowned Polish School of Posters is widely recognized as the best in contemporary poster art comparable to La Belle Époque (ca1890s) French posters. The Polish School of Posters combines the aesthetics of painting with the succinctness and simple metaphor of the poster. Since its beginning in the early 1950s it has developed characteristics such as painterly gesture, linear quality, and vibrant colors, as well as a sense of individual personality, humor, and fantasy. That way, the Polish poster was able to make the distinction between designer and artist less apparent. Posters of the Polish Poster School significantly influenced the international development of graphic design in poster art. Their major contribution is in their use of the power of suggestion through clever allusions. Using strong and vivid colors from folk art, they combine printed slogans, often hand-lettered, with popular symbols, to create a concise inventive metaphor. As a hybrid of words and images, these posters created a certain aesthetic tension. In addition to aesthetic aspects, Polish School posters are able to reveal the artist's emotional involvement with the subject. They do not solely exist as an objective presentation, rather they are also the artist's interpretation and commentary on the subject and on society.