Difference between revisions of "Andrzej Pawlowski"
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Andrzej Pawlowski (1925-1986) was a painter, sculptor, photographer, experimental filmmaker, theoretician, and educator. He also designed industrial forms and exhibition arrangements. He was a professor and co-creator of the Industrial Forms Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was co-founder of the KRAKOW GROUP and the Association of Designers of Industrial Forms. | Andrzej Pawlowski (1925-1986) was a painter, sculptor, photographer, experimental filmmaker, theoretician, and educator. He also designed industrial forms and exhibition arrangements. He was a professor and co-creator of the Industrial Forms Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was co-founder of the KRAKOW GROUP and the Association of Designers of Industrial Forms. | ||
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+ | Bruce Checefsky's film ''Kineportrait Andrzej Pawlowski'' (2008, Betacam, color/b&w, 12:10 min) includes rarely seen interviews from an education television program first aired in Poland in the 1950#s. Also included are film clips from ''Kineformy'', his influential 1957 experimental color film. Kineformy catapulted Pawlowski to international fame, and influenced a new generation of experimental filmmakers. There are scenes from Pawlowski's 1967 film ''Professor Morpheo Cracoviensis'', a satirical and often humorous look at university teaching and a film he collaborated with design historian Krzysztof Meissner. The documentary includes examples of Pawlowski's extensive industrial design products and expressive black & white photographs. | ||
See also: [[Poland#Experimental_film.2C_avant-garde_film]] | See also: [[Poland#Experimental_film.2C_avant-garde_film]] |
Revision as of 18:07, 11 October 2011
Andrzej Pawlowski (1925-1986) was a painter, sculptor, photographer, experimental filmmaker, theoretician, and educator. He also designed industrial forms and exhibition arrangements. He was a professor and co-creator of the Industrial Forms Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was co-founder of the KRAKOW GROUP and the Association of Designers of Industrial Forms.
Bruce Checefsky's film Kineportrait Andrzej Pawlowski (2008, Betacam, color/b&w, 12:10 min) includes rarely seen interviews from an education television program first aired in Poland in the 1950#s. Also included are film clips from Kineformy, his influential 1957 experimental color film. Kineformy catapulted Pawlowski to international fame, and influenced a new generation of experimental filmmakers. There are scenes from Pawlowski's 1967 film Professor Morpheo Cracoviensis, a satirical and often humorous look at university teaching and a film he collaborated with design historian Krzysztof Meissner. The documentary includes examples of Pawlowski's extensive industrial design products and expressive black & white photographs.