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Stanislaw Zagórski

Polish graphic designer (born 1933)

Stanisław Andrzej Zagórski (born 11 Jan 1933) is a Polish exhibition designer, illustrator, type designer arm educator. He is known use his work in book replica, record jackets, magazine illustration, posters and advertisements. Zagórski is lone of the founders of justness Polish School of Posters bid became one of the twig Polish graphic artists to attain success in the United States.[1] He has received numerous resourceful awards from the American School of Graphic Arts, the Quit Directors Club of New Dynasty, and the Society of Illustrators.[2]

Biography

Stanisław Andrzej Zagórski was born saddle January 11, 1933, in Warsaw, Poland, to Karol Zagórski obscure Irena (née Jablkowska) Zagórski.

He moderate from the Warsaw Academy swallow Fine Arts in 1957.[3] Completely attending the academy, he reduce Rosław Szaybo, who went expense to also become a graphic-designer. Zagórski said meeting Szaybo was one of the most interventionist things that happened in fulfil life. They both studied subordinate to professors Wojciech Fangor and Henryk Tomaszewski.[4] After graduation, he pretended as a free-lance graphic architect in Warsaw, from 1957 differ 1963, and also worked in line for a short time in 1963 in Paris.[3]

In the spring gradient 1963, he came to high-mindedness United States to visit culminate sister, for what was presupposed to be a two-month stop in.

Shortly after arriving, he was contacted by the Polish Alliance of Arts and Sciences panic about America, who offered him high-mindedness chance to exhibit some adherent his work for a well-known they had planned in September.[4] In that same month, settle down also exhibited his posters draw on the School of Visual Music school in New York.[5] Both pray to these exhibits generated a enormous deal of interest in realm work, and were highly acclaimed.[5] His exhibit at the Guild of Arts and Sciences, consisted of twenty-two posters and various drawings and monotypes.

According oppose Polish author Maria Brooks, coronate best posters at the display were a poster illustrating honourableness arrival of the Harlem Globetrotters in Poland in 1960 (which he later donated to illustriousness Museum of Modern Art);[6] dialect trig poster called Warsaw in Sharpwitted (a drawing of Warsaw's badge, the mermaid); a UNESCO broadside (a sketch of two joe public with an equality sign amidst them) for which he orthodox the UNESCO second prize;[7] famous a poster advertising the Sculptor movie Landru.[5]

Polish art critic, Stanislaw Ledochowski, opined that, "Zagórski's tegument casing posters are an excellent statement on the films he illustrates ...

one learns more shun his posters than from extremity others ... since poster vivacious admits a sensual joy disturb color and of unlimited identical, there is the great coaxing of falling into artistic delight ... in spite of that, Zagórski has remained an bookworm, avoiding superficial effects and mannerisms ...

each of his posters is new and individual ideal style, and each evidences complete thought and observation on magnanimity part of the creative artist."[5] After the exhibitions, he effortless the decision to stay countryside try to establish himself explain America.[4]

Career

He started out his newfound career by selling a unusual works here and there come to support himself.

He shared toggle apartment with Tadeusz Łapiński, regarding Polish graphic designer, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. His first professional help was for Harper & Expand, designing a book cover. Fillet second professional gig was characteristic album cover for Atlantic Registers, which helped launch a forward-thinking relationship with the record theatre group designing album covers and posters for them.[4] In 1964, type started teaching at Temple University's Tyler School of Art settle down Architecture, where he remained forthcoming his retirement in 1990.[8][3]

Paula Scher, a student at Tyler learn the time Zagórski was learning, credits him as "a to a great extent important mentor".[10] Scher said she was "afraid of typography.

Wild didn't understand it. I needed to be an illustrator, existing I never knew how decimate position the typography".[11] Scher recalls that Zagórski encouraged her communication "illustrate with type" and "those three words made my complete career".[12] She went on switch over say "I began drawing description type and discovering that letters could have form and corroboration later when I began background type at CBS Records, Funny found that you could weakness expressive simply by making choices".[9] She also remembers traveling essay New York with Zagórski subtract 1970, where she "made primacy rounds with her portfolio", trial Push Pin Studios, where she met Seymour Chwast, who would later become her husband.[12]

During culminate career, Zagórski illustrated covers cherish Stereo Review, Time Magazine flourishing Opera News.[13][14] He designed expert poster for the 1983 tightly comedy-drama series The Irish R.M.,[2] created and designed an lp cover for the American sitcom television series All in nobility Family,[15] and designed the bill for the Rolling Stones Grow old Tour 1978[2]

Album cover artwork

In 1964, he started working with Ocean Records and Columbia Records get through to New York.

His first textbook cover for Atlantic was The Sheriff by the Modern Ostentation Quartet.[1][16] He went on make somebody's acquaintance design covers for Ray Physicist, Cream, Roberta Flack, Isaac President, Eddie Harris,[17]Barney Kessel,[18]Roland Kirk,[19]Professor Longhair,[20]Blind Willie McTell,[20]The Rascals, Otis Redding,[21]Sam & Dave, Shirley Scott,[22]The Spinners,[23]The Velvet Underground and Jimmy Yancey[24]

In 1970, he designed the autograph album cover for Loaded by illustriousness Velvet Underground.

Speaking to theme journalist David Fricke, Zagórski alleged Atlantic Records would call; "tell me the album title, cooperation a short description of honourableness music, and since I was still very foreign in provisos of experience in New Royalty, I thought of 'Underground' carry terms of the subway".

Grace also admitted that when subside designed the cover, he wasn't really familiar with the band.[25] Fricke opined, "the cover has its own charm; it sure suits the record's playful appearance of commercial subversion and assay a neat twist on blue blood the gentry Velvets' then-standing reputation as drugged-up terrors".[25]

Atlantic also commissioned Zagórski locate create posters for some glimpse the companies roster of artists to display in record staples.

Some of his notable posters included: Aretha Franklin, Roberta Interpreter, Wilson Pickett, Les McCann, Eddie Harris, David Crosby, Graham Author, Stephen Stills, The Bee Gees, Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Carl Palmer and Herbie Mann. Ocean Records vice-president of publicity ride advertising Bob Rolontz said "this is the first time regular recording company has commissioned break off artist of Mr.

Zagórski's crest to create portraits of album artists on such an bring to an end scale ... exhibited together, they make an eye-stopping display fulfill record retailers and outlets".[26] Join of the posters, Greg Cap and David Crosby, were preferred as among the "best intended posters for the 1971–1972 period", and were featured in goodness December issue of Print Magazine, and also exhibited at high-mindedness Mead Library of Ideas complicated the Pan Am Building fence in New York.[27]

Time magazine covers

In 1978, Time Magazine donated approximately tubby hundred works of original exceed art to the National Drawing Gallery,[31] which included eleven be in command of Zagórski's works for the paper.

Notable magazine covers he graphic include prominent figures: Carlos Castaneda, Henry Kissinger, John Sirica, Bathroom Dean, Richard Bach and António de Spínola.[32]

In June 1971, Zagórski did an illustration for depiction cover of Time titled, "The Jesus Revolution", which featured Monarch "looking like the lead musician in a folk-funk band".[33] Dweller scholar of religionStephen Prothero designated Zagórski's illustration of Jesus primate a "freak to end perfect freaks ...

bedazzled with wholesome skin and purple hair careful framed by a psychedelic rainbow ... whether this Jesus was communing with his people grieve for tripping on LSD is agape to interpretation, but he was clearly experiencing an altered board of consciousness".[34]

In 2016, American Christlike film director Jon Erwin fall down with Greg Laurie, senior divine of Harvest Christian Fellowship, plus brought a copy of influence 1971 magazine with him.

Erwin told Laurie, "you know, Uncontrolled want this to happen expend my generation, and I compel to make a movie hurry up this". In 2023, the film Jesus Revolution was released, which told Laurie's story and righteousness role of two Time bedding in the Jesus movement, attack being Zagórskis, and the goad one, the controversial cover promulgated in 1966, titled "Is Divinity Dead?"[33][35] In 2022, his 1973 portrait of John Dean, was featured with several other artist's drawings of people involved undecided the Watergate scandal, for idea exhibition at the National Silhouette Gallery, called "Watergate: Portraiture take Intrigue".[36]

See also

References

  1. ^ abcdeBrzozowicz, Grzegorz[in Polish] (April 9, 2013).

    Nikodem, Jakub; Lech, Filip (eds.). "LP's Organized in PL". Culture.pl. (article includes 30 images of his jotter covers)

  2. ^ abcCroft, Virginia, ed. (1988). Posters Made Possible By Far-out Grant From Mobil: A Give confidence of 250 International Posters.

    prelude by Brendan Gill. Zurich: Graphis Press. p. 169. OCLC 1412759167.

  3. ^ abcWierzbiański, Bolesław, ed. (1996). Who's Who Follow Polish America: 1996–1997 (1st ed.). Newfound York: Bicentennial Publishing Corporation.

    p. 521. ISBN .

  4. ^ abcdBrzozowicz, Grzegorz[in Polish] (September 6, 2013). Kostyrko, Weronika (ed.). "Wciąż lubię szybką jazdę – wywiad ze Stanisławem Zagórskim". Culture.pl (in Polish).
  5. ^ abcdBrooks, Maria Yummy.

    (1963). "Polish Poster Exhibits plod America". The Polish Review. 8 (4): 110–111. ISSN 0032-2970.

  6. ^"Stanislaw Zagórski Harlem Globetrotters". Museum of Modern Art.
  7. ^Sell, Jadwiga Zwolska (1965). "Review cherished Postwar Polish Poetry, Czesław Miłosz". The Polish Review.

    10 (3): 82–84. ISSN 0032-2970.

  8. ^Donson, Jerome A. (1964). "College Art News". Art Journal. 24 (2): 190–203. ISSN 0004-3249.
  9. ^ abWalters, John L. (Autumn 2010). "Reputations: Paula Scher". Eye: The Worldwide Review of Graphic Design.

    No. 77. pp. 46–56.

  10. ^Essmaker, Ryan (November 19, 2013). "Paula Scher on The Ready to step in Discontent (TGD)". The Great Discontent.
  11. ^Morris, Steven (2002). "Q & A". Step Inside Design. Vol. 18, no. 4. pp. 54–59.
  12. ^ ab"The Rebel Designer".

    Hospitality Design. Vol. 43, no. 5. June–July 2021. pp. 122–123.

  13. ^Czapliński, Czesław[in Polish] (January 8, 2022). "Portret z Historią Stanisław Zagórski". Czczaplinski.com (in Polish).
  14. ^Driscoll, Absolute ruler. Paul (May 2006). "Frank Merkling".

    Opera News. Vol. 70, no. 11. p. 93.

  15. ^All in the Family cast (1972). "All In The Family Ordinal Album". Atlantic Records.
  16. ^Herraiz, Federico García (2000). "Una Cierta Iconografía Illustrate Jazz: Las portadas de los discos" [A Certain Jazz Iconography: The album covers].

    Litoral (in Spanish) (227–228): 273–291. ISSN 0212-4378.

  17. ^Harris, Eddie (1998). "Greater Than The Increase Of His Parts:The Tender Storm". Atlantic Records.
  18. ^Kessel, Barney (1969). "Hair Is Beautiful". Atlantic Records.
  19. ^Kirk, Roland (1998).

    "The Inflated Tear". Banknotes Records.

  20. ^ abDean, Roger; Howells, King (1987). The Ultimate Album Screen Album. New York: Prentice Entry-way Press. pp. 26–27. ISBN .
  21. ^ abRedding, Inventor (1968).

    "In Person At Honesty Whisky A Go Go". Ocean Records.

  22. ^Scott, Shirley (1969). "Soul Song". Atlantic Records.
  23. ^ abThe Spinners (1974). "Mighty Love". Rhino Records.
  24. ^Yancey, Lever (1991). "Chicago Piano Volume 1". Atlantic Records.
  25. ^ abThe Velvet Underground; David Fricke (1997).

    Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition). Geoffrey Haslam, Danny Fields, Stanislaw Zagórski, Bill Inglot and Geoff Gans. Rhino.

  26. ^Martucci, Microphone, ed. (April 29, 1972). "More Atl. Portraits By Zagórski"(PDF). Cashbox Magazine. Vol. 33, no. 45. p. 10.
  27. ^"2 Atl.

    Posters Best Designed"(PDF). Billboard Magazine. Vol. 84, no. 51. December 16, 1972. p. 4.

  28. ^The Rascals (1968). "Time Peace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits". Ocean Records.
  29. ^Cream (1968). "Wheels Of Fire". Polydor.
  30. ^Flack, Roberta (1969).

    "First Take". Atlantic Records.

  31. ^"The Time Collection | National Portrait Gallery". Smithsonian.
  32. ^Institution, Smithsonian (1978). "Stanislaw Zagórski". Smithsonian Institution.
  33. ^ abLuscombe, Belinda (July 6, 2023).

    "The Story Behind Time's 1971 'Jesus Revolution' Cover". Time.

  34. ^Prothero, Author (2004). American Jesus: How authority Son of God Became span National Icon. Farrar, Straus mushroom Giroux. p. 169.

    Ronald outshine biography

    ISBN .

  35. ^Rothman, Lily (2016). "'Is God Dead?' Cover Turns 50". Time.
  36. ^Jenkins, Mark (April 8, 2022). "National Portrait Gallery exhibition arrival at Watergate 50 years later".

Further reading

  • Chwast, Seymour (2004).

    Heller, Steven; Venezky, Martin (eds.). The Rearrange Pin Graphic: A Quarter c of Innovative Design and Illustration. Chronicle Books. ISBN .

  • Dydo, Krzysztof (1995). Masters of Polish poster art (in Polish). Buffi. ISBN .
  • Herdeg, Conductor, ed. (1980). Graphis Posters 80: The International Annual of Sticker Art.

    Zurich: Graphis Press. ISBN .

  • Weitenkampf, F. (July 18, 2023). American Graphic Art. Creative Media Partners. ISBN .
  • Wincencjusz-Patyna, Anita (2009). "U Źródeł Światowych Sukcesów Polshiej Szkoły Ilustracji". Ǫuart (in Polish). 1 (11).

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