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Wojciech Fangor (15 November 1922 – 25 October 2015) was a Polish painter, graphic artist, sculptor and a co-creator of the Polish School of Posters.

Wojciech Fangor
Born	Wojciech Bonawentura Fangor (1922-11-15)15 November 1922 Warsaw, Poland
Died	25 October 2015(2015-10-25) (aged 92) Warsaw, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Known for	Painting, Graphic art, Sculpture

Life and career

During World War II Fangor privately studied art with Felicjan Kowarski and Tadeusz Pruszkowski, and obtained his diploma in 1946 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

After the war, Wojciech Fangor created paintings that belong to the canon of socialist realist works of art, later co-founding the Polish School of Posters. In the period 1953–1961, he designed about 100 posters. In his paintings, as well as in his poster art, he used similar artistic motifs, monumental and powerful forms that were synthetic and simplified. Sometimes the social realism subjects in his work took on elements of caricature.[1]

Following Joseph Stalin's death, in 1953 he turned away from socialist realism as a style. Between 1953 and 1961, he was employed as an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.[2] The period of ideological and artistic reassessment matured in Fangor's works by the creation of the world's first spatial installation, a study of environment and space, Studium Przestrzeni (1958). During this period, he painted borderless abstract paintings pulsating with colours. His original theory of implementing this artistic experience he later named “Positive illusive space”.[3] He described this as illusions of the space activated outside the painting between the surface of the caves and the viewer.[4]

From 1962, Fangor worked abroad as part of various scholarships - in New York, West Berlin, and Bath. He eventually settled permanently in the United States in 1966.[5]

In 1964 Bill Seitz, curator of the Museum of Modern Art became interested in optical art, and came to Europe searching for artists.[2] He saw Fangor's exhibition in Paris, and decided to include him in his show the Responsive Eye the following year, introducing him to op art as a movement.[4] In 1970 he became the first Pole to have an individual exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[6]

Fangor designed murals for the station walls of the second line of the Warsaw Metro in 2014.

At the time of his death, he resided in Błędów, Grójec County, a village near Warsaw.[7]

Selected works

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  Signature, Stadion Narodowy metro station
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  Rondo ONZ metro station
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  Nowy Świat-Uniwersytet metro station
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  Centrum Nauki Kopernik metro station
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  Dworzec Wileński metro station
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  Rondo Daszyńskiego metro station
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  Świętokrzyska metro station
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  Mosaics, Warszawa Śródmieście railway station
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  Permanent exhibition, Museum of Warsaw
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  Selection of paintings by Fangor

See also

• Culture of Poland
• List of Poles

References

External links

• Biography and image gallery at culture.pl
• Selection of Works
• Information on Exhibits

На других языках

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[de] Wojciech Fangor

Wojciech Fangor (* 15. November 1922 in Warschau; † 25. Oktober 2015[1]) war ein polnischer Maler, Grafiker, Bildhauer und Plakatkünstler.

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- [en] Wojciech Fangor

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[es] Wojciech Fangor

Wojciech Fangor (Varsovia, 15 de noviembre de 1922 - Varsovia, 25 de octubre de 2015),[1] pintor, grafista, diseñador y escultor polaco, representante del movimiento Op-Art.[2]

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