The Triumph of Colour

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Address ul. Św. Marcin 80/82, Poznań
Entry 12–25 PLN
Venue's website www.zamek.poznan.pl
Curator Krystyna Kulig-Janarek

This exhibition at the Zamek Culture Centre showcases more than a 100 masterpieces of French graphics from the turn of the 20th century from the collection of the National Museum in Krakow, including works by Pierre Bonnard, Auguste Renoir, Alphonse Mucha and more.


The set of French artists’ masterpieces from the National Museum in Krakow mostly comes from the collection of Feliks Jasienski, an excellent collector, donor and patron of the arts. It will allow us to follow through the evolution of the use of colour in an art which so far was dominated by black and white. The end of the 19th century in France brought a rapid development of this branch of art, which often served for reporter’s duty or advertising appetite, gained a brand new format and personality. There was a breakthrough—not only noticeable in calendars—which brought to fame peintres grauvers (painter-graphic artists) and ennoblement of graphics as a field of art. The collection of works showcased in the Culture Centre will be supplemented by posters from an old collection found in the Museum of Science and Industry in Krakow.

Alongside the exhibition, there’s also a rich educational program with specially prepared lessons, meetings, lectures and workshops. The program is built around the issues regarding colour, its essence, nature, properties, structure, history and applications. The events will focus colour in the context of its history, as well as other colours found in the Zamek. During the lectures, the audience will be able to learn more about colours as a phenomenon that occurs in nature, delve into the secrets of pigments and their use in industrial graphics. They will also explore methods of using colours in mass culture and the meaning of respective colours in all sorts of traditions all around the globe.

selected artists: Pierre Bonnard, Jules Chéret, Maurice Denis, Eugène Grasset, Henri Gabriel Ibels, Auguste Lepère, Lucien Pissarro, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Paul-Élie Ranson, Henri Rivière, Auguste Renoir, Paul Signac, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Édouard Vuillard, Jacques Villon, Georges de Feure, Alfons Mucha, Félicien Rops, Alfred Sisley

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