Wojciech fangor biography of william hill

Polish modern painter (–)

Wojciech Bonawentura Fangor (pronounced: VOY-tche-kh) (15 November – 25 October ), also known as Voy Fangor, was a Polish painter, graphic artist, and sculptor.

Described as "one of the most distinctive painters to emerge from postwar Poland", Fangor has been associated with Op art and Color field movements and recognized as a key figure in the history of Polish postwar abstract art.^[1]

As a graphic artist, Fangor is known as a co-creator of the Polish School of Posters.

Wojciech fangor biography of william hill

Between and , he designed over one hundred posters working alongside Henryk Tomaszewski and Jan Lenica, among others. As a painter, Fangor was trained by the Polish academic and figurative artist Felicjan Szczęsny-Kowarski.

After briefly conforming to the style of Socialist Realism during the Stalinist regime in Poland, Fangor had moved toward non-objective painting by the late s.

Fangor's exhibition titled Studium Przestrzeni at Salon Nowej Kultury