Boris Bućan, 1982. Poster for Igor Stravinsky's ballet Firebird (1982, HNK in Split).

Poster for Igor Stravinsky's ballet Firebird (1982, Croatian National Theater in Split). in 1982
Poster of 6 parts.
Signed by the author.
Dimensions: 198 x 202 cm.

The posters from the series for the Croatian National Theater in Split from 1982 stand out for their exceptional artistic quality, among which is the poster for Igor Stravinsky's ballet Firebird (1982, Croatian National Theater in Split). At the exhibition of the history of poster design held at The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, that Bućan poster was included among the 250 best world posters created in the period from 1870 to 1998. The poster also adorns the cover of the catalog The Power of the Poster of the said exhibition, which is exceptional recognition to the artist.

The graphic of the grass on the Firebird poster, a detail that the author holds under his patent, has become his trademark and runs through his numerous poster solutions as an inexhaustible inspiration, a starting point for the design of motifs (cathedrals, animals, people, musical instruments...) and their metamorphoses. . On Bućan's posters live animals with anthropomorphized details, female bodies with zoomorphic features, anthropomorphized musical instruments, with which, playing with elements of certain styles of the past, he builds new syntaxes. Through transformations of motifs, the author enters into communication with the observer, giving him a riddle, an enigmatic game with images, a game of deciphering symbols and connecting them on new levels of meaning.