High Noon. 4 June 1989; Pro-democracy Poster Collection
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
Poland (printed)
- Date:
1989 (printed)
- Artist/Maker:
Sarnecki, Tomasz, born 1966 (designer)
Solidarity (issued by) - Materials and Techniques:
Offset lithograph printed in black and red on paper
- Museum number:
E.3125-1990
- Gallery location:
National Art Library, room 76, case 17
Tomasz Sarnecki's poster is one of the most memorable images of the June 1989 elections in Poland, a key moment in the democratic revolution that took place that year in Eastern Europe. It represents the election as the moment when the Communist Party will be brought to justice. The pistol that Gary Cooper had carried in the Hollywood western High Noon (1952), is replaced by the ballot paper, metaphorically identifying an impending change from rule by force to rule by ballot box.
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