Tadeusz Kantor (1915 – 1990)
Studied at the Krakow Academy.
Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre
director.
Kantor started the Young Artists Group and the Underground
Independent Theatre while Krakow was still under of Nazi occupied Poland.
After the war, Kantor's rejection of Socialist Realism led
to his dismissal from the faculty at the Higher School of Fine Arts.
Many of his paintings feature umbrellas, bags, crumpled rags
and pieces of paper, common garbage - transposed from everyday life to the
world of art.
His well-known avant-garde theatre group, CRICOT 2, produced
many of plays including those written by himself and by Witkiewicz.
Recommended reading: http://www.culture.pl/web/english/resources-visual-arts-full-page/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/eAN5/content/tadeusz-kantor
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