Polish Poster School
ポーランド・ポスター派 / 1950s–1980s / Style / Regional Graphics
Rather than explain a film or a play, it turns the assignment into a psychological image built from painting, metaphor and hand-drawn letters.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Symbolic metaphor
- Hand-drawn lettering
- Rough paint surface
- One strong image
Best used for
- Promoting a film or a play through one metaphor instead of its plot
- Series for a theatre or a festival, each sheet drawn differently by hand
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Draw the title by hand in the same stroke as the image
- Composition
- One strong image near the center with nothing competing around it
- Material
- Rough brush and ink surface, few colors, tears and bleed left in
- Caution
- Leaning on star faces or film stills kills the metaphor, and roughening the surface alone leaves decoration with nothing behind it.
- Further study
- Henryk Tomaszewski / Jan Lenica / Roman Cieślewicz
Related entries
- Photomontage (フォトモンタージュ)Shared effects: Rebellion / Exhilaration.Compare Polish Poster School and Photomontage
- Psychedelic (サイケデリック)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Rebellion.Compare Polish Poster School and Psychedelic
Often confused with
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- Angura Poster (アングラ演劇ポスター)Shared effects: Rebellion / Exhilaration / Nostalgia.
- Grapus (グラピュス)Shared effects: Rebellion / Exhilaration.
- Chinese Propaganda Poster (中国プロパガンダ・ポスター)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Nostalgia.
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