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"Carmen" by Rafal Olbinski
Framed Poster (open edition)
"24" x "37"
Olbinski at the Opera Poster Series
Availability and Price Subject to Change
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Born in Kielce, Poland in 1945, Rafal Olbinski studied architecture before dedicating himself to painting and design. He is best known for his role as an internationally acclaimed designer of opera house posters and for designing the covers of hundreds of magazines, from Time to Newsweek and The New Yorker. Commissioned by Allegro Music to complete a series of album covers for their opera series, Olbinski has achieved a reputation as the image-maker of opera. The Nation hails him as a “latter-day Dali” and The New York Times remarks that if you don’t know his name, “Odds are you know his paintings.” Olbinski’s lush images are layered with complex psychology. He does not paint the landscape of scientific reality, but rather maps the interiors of the mind. Like Dali and Magritte before him, Olbinski’s work has a poetic resonance – he depicts the mind as a theater of dreams, with new attractions around every corner. “Poetic humor is a quality rarely found in the fine arts,” says Andre Parinuad, President of the International Arts Salon in Paris. “Rafal Olbinski has this gift. He wants to show us that our imagination is a magical world which we are recreating forever. He draws us into a different universe, and forces us to use our eyes to participate in a marvelous world which is the true dimension of dreams
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