Polish poster art

I've long had a particular interest in Polish poster art. Initially, it was the animated and experimental film collaborations of Jan Lenica and Walerian Borowczyk that made me aware of the tradition of Polish graphic arts. Lenica having a diverse career with films that inspired the likes of Jan Švankmajer and Terry Gilliam, forrays in music, architecture, additionally he was a poster artist himself. Borowczyk also had a significant amount of training and a career in the visual arts encompassing poster art, painting, and lithography. Nonetheless, he is most known for his early animations: solo works, the aforementioned collaborations with Lenica, as well as Chris Marker, leading a surrealist aesthetic revolution into the mainstream. Yet, I digress. Eventually coming to find poster works by such names as Wiktor Sadowski, Wiktor Gorka, Andrzej Pagowski, and above all Francizsek Starowieyski (below), I became genuinely enamored with these artists that lent their craft to film, theater, opera, ballet, and even circus posters. I recently found a website that offers prints (some original) of their works, though they don't come cheap.