One of the most outstanding authors of Polish poster art, illustrator.
Born in 1930, he died on February 21, 2008 in Warsaw. He attended the Jose Marti High School in Warsaw, studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. He received his diploma in 1953.
Flisak was comfortable with many artistic techniques, in his portfolio simple pen drawings sit side by side with gouaches or collages. It combines a simple line , with sophisticated humor. He was an illustrator of books, both for children and adults.
Selected book titles
Flisak’s posters are careless. The opinion of the ugliness, the unsightly gestalt of Polish poster art is in full force here. The illustrations are painted with a thick brush, offhand, naively. However, this is the power of these paintings, and combined with Flisak’s inexhaustible humor, they produce an astonishing variety. Flisak handles color with lightness, uses imaginative typography
Selected posters
He was also involved in set design and animated film. He developed graphics for productions of the Drawing Film Studio in Bielsko-Biała
He loved satirical illustration of which he was a master. Flisak also created a cycle of caricatures of famous figures of the Polish political sena.
Jerzy Flisak, however, owes his debut in satirical newspapers to a contest held by the satirical “Pins” in 1950.
He is the author of popular satirical newspaper drawings published, among others, in “Polityka” weekly magazine “World” (more than half a thousand drawings in the series “Dwarfs are in the world”
Świerszczyk series What did our Bobik do “Kultura”, “Polska”, “Przegląd Kulturalny”. However, he owes his press debut to a competition held by the satirical “Szpilki” (1950), in which he later served as graphic editor.
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