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Świerzy never illustrated films so much as he re-imagined them, and this Greystoke poster is a perfect example of why he sits at the very top of the Polish School of Posters.
Created for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (Polish title: Greystoke, legenda Tarzana, władcy małp), this design abandons spectacle entirely. No loincloth. No vines. No heroic stance. Instead, Tarzan appears as a face half born, half swallowed by the jungle itself. Brushstrokes twist like roots, lines tangle like nerves, and color feels poured rather than placed. The jungle is not scenery here, it is identity.
This approach is pure Waldemar Świerzy. Trained as a painter and deeply influenced by jazz, expressionism, and poster modernism, Świerzy built images through gesture and rhythm rather than realism. He believed posters should feel alive, slightly unstable, and emotionally charged. Faces dissolve. Forms collide. Color behaves like sound. His work across film, theater, and music posters in the 1960s through the 1980s helped define what made Polish posters so radically different from their Western counterparts.
For Greystoke, Świerzy turns Tarzan into a psychological study. Civilization presses in. Nature refuses to let go. The result is not an adventure image but a tension you can feel in your chest. It is Tarzan as question, not answer. And it is Świerzy doing what he did best, using paint, instinct, and controlled chaos to tell a story no still frame ever could!
Size: 37.0" x 26.0"
Artist: Waldemar Swierzy
Condition: Very Good, Age appropriate fading, toning and wear. General border wear and light border creases. Minute paper loss in upper corner and lower outer border. Faint background creases. Please use zoom feature to get a better understanding of overall condition.
Age appropriate fading, toning and wear. General border wear and light border creases. Minute paper loss in upper corner and lower outer border. Faint background creases. Please use zoom feature to get a better understanding of overall condition.
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