Franciszek Starowieyski (1930-2009)
Studied painting at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts under
Wojciech Weiss and Adam Marczynski (1949-52)
Studied Painting at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under Michal
Bylina, and graduated in 1955.
For a number of years he
divided his time between Warsaw and Paris, intensively making some 300+
posters, quickly becoming one of the finest
representatives of the first Polish school of posters.
His posters are often full of
drama, tension, exuberance, grandeur, and ornament. At once both grotesque and beautiful,
his baroque style and macabre
attention to anatomy often begets the surreal and fantastic.
His penchant for 17th century draftsmanship is apparent in his masterful use of chiaroscuro and calligraphy. He often worked ambidextrously.
He was the first Pole to
have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1985).
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