TEHRAN --- Iranian graphic designer Ebrahim Haqiqi and painters and art critic Aidin Aghdashlu are scheduled to deliver speeches at the opening ceremony of a poster exhibition of a group Polish artists at the Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum on April 26.
Sixty artworks created by the artists of the Polish School of Posters have been selected for the exhibit, curator Iraj Mirza-Alikhani, a member of the Iranian Graphic Designers Society, said in a press release on Wednesday.
“This exhibit works like an educational course for the students of graphic arts, since Polish posters are unique in the world; they are handwritten, with excellent structures and compositions,” he said.
The art show has been organized in collaboration with the cultural attaché’s office of Poland in Tehran, and may travel to other Iranian cities.
Poster art in Poland has chronicled the nation's social, political and cultural life for more than a century.
Beginning in the 1950s and through the 1980s, the Polish School of Posters combined the aesthetics of painting with the succinctness and simple metaphor of the poster. It developed characteristics such as painterly gesture, linear quality, and vibrant colors, as well as a sense of individual personality, humor, and fantasy.
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