2.21.2011

WALDEMAR SWIERZY

Waldemar Swierzy is one of the most famous and prolific Polish poster artists, having produced over 2500 posters including countless iconic film posters and Cyrk (circus) posters. He's also known for a series of paintings of jazz legends. Here are some of my favorite designs of his. There's a wide range of style on display here, and these selected posters, with the exception of the APOCALYPSE NOW shown below, don't even really showcase his streak/splatter-paint style that could be considered one of his trademarks. I recently picked a great out-of-print book on Swierzy from the kind folk at Posteriatati in New York. Feast your eyes on these.


















4 comments:

mythopolis said...

These are amazing!

Ryan Patterson said...

I was recently in Prague and went to Kino Svetozor to catch Roman Holiday as part of an Audrey Hepburn mini-film festival. They had tons of original posters on display by Czech artist Josef Vyletal, which I'd seen before but was in awe to see them in the flesh, so to speak. Keep up the great work, Sam!

Sam's Myth said...

Cool Ryan! That's amazing -- Vyletal is the man. I would kill to stumble upon an exhibition of that sort in my European travels. There needs to be a site/blog that posts where shows like this can be seen at given times, for poster geeks like myself. :)

Anonymous said...

Hola, en que tipo de papel trabaja waldemar ??