Wiktor Sadowski’s Illustrations

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A fine representative of the great Polish poster tradition, Wiktor Sadowski, was born in Olendry, in 1956. Twenty five years later, in 1981, he graduated at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and obtained his diploma under the supervision of professor Henryk Tomaszewski. Specialised in poster, painting and book illustration, Sadowski’s work clearly manifests his tremendous artistry and skill. (mais…)

Wiktor Sadowski’s Illustrations

Pt.1…

A fine representative of the great Polish poster tradition, Wiktor Sadowski, was born in Olendry, in 1956. Twenty five years later, in 1981, he graduated at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and obtained his diploma under the supervision of professor Henryk Tomaszewski. Specialised in poster, painting and book illustration, Sadowski’s work clearly manifests his tremendous artistry and skill. (mais…)

Wiktor Sadowski’s Posters

A fine representative of the great Polish poster tradition, Wiktor Sadowski, was born in Olendry, in 1956. Twenty five years later, in 1981, he graduated at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and obtained his diploma under the supervision of professor Henryk Tomaszewski. Specialised in poster, painting and book illustration, Sadowski’s work clearly manifests his tremendous artistry and skill. (mais…)

Tapeworks by Mark Khaisman

Ukrainian born, Mark Khaisman, studied art and architecture in Moscow Architectural Institute, and currently lives in Philadelphia, where he conceives his unique Tapeworks, which consist in the technique of creating distinct canvases with tape. Mostly inpired by famed movie scenes, Khaisman skilfully makes use of superposition to create cognizable images, capable of setting up a dialogue between the paintings and his public, often and often carried away by the duality calculated/aleatory the Tapeworks portray. Impressive, each canvas normally takes one week and one hundred metres of tape to be finished. Following you can read what Mark Khaisman states about his fine and catching portraits. Take a look. (mais…)

The covers of The Masses, 1911-1917

Published monthly in the United States from 1911 until 1917 – when Federal prosecutors brought charges against its editors for conspiring to obstruct conscription during World War I – The Masses was a graphically innovative magazine of socialist politics, which was idealized among a circle of young activists and intellectuals in Greenwich Village – a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, that was known in the late 19^th to mid 20^th centuries as the bohemian capital (mais…)