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Mieczysław Wasilewski – Drawing and poster

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Mieczysław Wasilewski – Drawing and posterSolo exhibitionExhibition: June 03rd, 2024 – September 15th 2024Opening: June 03rd, 2024, 6:00 PMRetroavangarda Gallery, Al. Jerozolimskie 146D, WarsawExhibition Curator: PhD Anna Kłos Organizers: Retroavangarda, Apollo Rida and WIT Academy The newest retrospective exhibition of Mieczysław Wa­silewski, the master of Polish poster, presents his works from the 1960s to the newest pieces. The […]

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Korean Graphic Art

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Korean Graphic ArtOpening: April 19th, 2024, 6:30 PMApril 19th, 2024 – May 31th 2024Exhibition Curator: dr Anna Kłos, prof. Chang Sik KimOrganizers: Retroavangarda, Apollo Rida and WIT Academy Photo report from the opening of the exhibition: From April 19th to the end of May 2024, the Korean Graphic Art Exhibition can be viewed at the Retroavangarda Gallery in

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Michał Piekarski ‘Free Poetry’

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Michał Piekarski ‘Free Poetry’ Solo Exhibition June 5, 2023 – September 30, 2023 Exhibition Curator: dr Anna Kłos Michał Piekarski is a graphic artist who has a passion for typography and letters, creating compositions from fonts. He is the author of graphic design projects for books, albums, postage stamps, posters, and magazines. He resides in

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Luis Antonio Rivera Rodriguez – Mexican poster at Retroavangarda Gallery

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Luis Antonio Rivera Rodríguez is a professional graphic and poster designer from Mexico. He is a member of AMDI Mexican Association of Illustrators. He participated in many national exhibitions, among which the following can be mentioned: Poster CON100te 2011, I Love Design 2012 and 2014 rock in paper 2013, 1 UP Mexico 2013 and 2015,

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Seung Min Han – positive energy in Korean illustration

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Seung-Min Han was born in Korea in 1976. Graphic designer, illustrator, visual artist and educator based in Seoul. Professor of Hansung University Design & Arts Institute. He received his MFA degree in Visual Communication Design at Kookmin University in Korea and BA in Visual Communication, Digital Media at KvB Institute of Technology (Bond University) in

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Jonathan Sirit and his avant-garde inspirations

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Jonathan Sirit – graphic designer, musician, collage artist and creator of underground zines. These are just some of  the passions of the young artist. He was born in Venezuela in 1987 and 20 years later he migrated to Barcelona. He is the drummer of now famous punk band Belgrado (lead singer of which, by the

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Reid Miles for Blue Note – Blue jazz series

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Reid Miles (1927-1993) Reid Miles is an ingenious graphic designer who worked in the 50s and 60s for Blue Note record company and created there over 500 album designs, which today are splendid examples for subsequent generations of graphic designers. Why are they so good? When talking about album cover designs it is often said

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Henri Matisse vs Paul Rand – what the famous fauvist has to do with the author of IBM logo

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Graphic design and painting might seem to some as distant fields of art but the truth is that artists from both sides face the same artistic problems, for instance: balanced composition, colour, scale, dominant etc. In history of art, there are instances of artists who practice completely different art styles and yet create very similar

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John Heartfield and the dawn of photomontage

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Photomontage as an art technique was initiated and developed by Dadaists in the interwar period. Back then, it proved to be the perfect tool for expressing rebellious moods and political critique. One of the first and at the same time most important artists using this technique was John Heartfield. He was German, his real name

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