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SPORTING LIFE IN ORIGINAL VINTAGE POSTERS
Cycles France 1920s; A. Bernat; 63″ x 47″ World Cup Soccer, the Tour de France, Wimbledon…we live in fabulous times for those of us who love the world of sports. The darkness of this graphic design so aptly captures the … Continue reading
Posted in Art Deco Posters&Graphics, Current Events, Illustrators, Modernist Posters&Graphics, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists
Tagged Arthur Zelger, Donald Brun, French vintage pochoir, Hoffe, Pierre Mourgue, Roger Broders, Tour de France, vintage sports posters, Wimbledon, World Cup Soccer
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MAKING A BEAUTIFUL MESS—KONTAKTHOF BY PINA BAUSCH
One of the most magic moments of the fare provided by the Toronto Luminato Art Festival every June came our way a few days ago, in the form of the Pina Bausch Wuppertal Dance Theatre performing one of their classics, … Continue reading
SURREALIST GRAPHIC ART—BIGGER THAN YOU THINK!
We’ve gotten together before, on this blog site, to mutually marvel at the impact of original vintage poster art with a Surrealist twist, as an ardent exponent of some of the most incisive reflections upon the subject and lifeline of … Continue reading
Posted in Avant-Garde Posters&Graphics, Current Events, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists, Surrealist Posters&Graphics
Tagged Arpad Elfer, Art Gallery of Ontario, contemporary film, contemporary issues, Jean Cocteau, Jonathan Glazer, Kazumasa Nagai, La Belle et la Bete, Rene Magritte, urbanity
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WHAT HAPPENED? BALLET’S BIG SURPRISE!
We tend to think of ballet as a field of design effort—not unlike original vintage posters—as a bastion of antiquated ways. We know how inaccurate that supposition is, when it comes to vintage graphic art as whipping up a tornado … Continue reading
DOORS OPEN TORONTO—OPENING OUR EYES!
Toronto’s recent building boom has galvanized, as never before those living here to try to understand the riches of design skills and efforts going into all this change. Consequently, the May weekend festival of visits to architectural highlights, called DOORS … Continue reading
VINTAGE GRAPHIC ART AND GREAT EXPOS–MAKING SOMETHING BIG EVEN BIGGER
Atherton; 30″ x 20″ Modern technology has enabled a proliferation of international events focussing upon excellence and the changes going on in current history. This poster graphic from one of the most memorably iconic attention getters deftly thrills to a … Continue reading
Posted in Art Deco Posters&Graphics, Art Nouveau/Belle Époque Posters&Graphics, Current Events, Modernist Posters&Graphics, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists
Tagged art deco, contemporary issues, French sensibility, French vintage posters, Luminato Festival, Milan, New York Expos, Paris, Toronto, urbanity, Vintage Travel Posters
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CONTACTING CONTACT (TORONTO’S PHOTO EXPO)
A picture’s worth a thousand words—especially as crafted by someone with eyes wide open.
Posted in Current Events
Tagged Cindy Sherman, Contact Photo Festival, Contemporary Art, Toronto, urbanity
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TIGHT SPOTS—AS SEEN BY VINTAGE GRAPHICS
We’ve had a (3-point) shot of excitement and dashed hopes these days, courtesy of the basketball Raptors of Toronto (“WE THE NORTH”). Playoff fever is a phenomenon worth thinking about, at an historical juncture where professional team sports have, to … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Illustration Art, Illustrators, Modernist Posters&Graphics, Surrealist Posters&Graphics
Tagged A.M. Cassandre, contemporary issues, Illustrated vintage magazines, professional sports, Toronto Raptors, urbanity, vintage artistic magazine, Vintage Harpers Bazaar, Vintage L'Illustration magazine, vintage movie posters, vintage posters
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THE PERFECT SOFA–VERY MUCH A MATTER OF TOUCH!
On these pages we usually draw attention to remarkably finished products of design, not being conversant with or privy to the construction of such delights. We recently had the windfall (reminding us of the opportunity to observe the artisans of … Continue reading
FRANCIS BACON AND HENRY MOORE ABSORBING TERROR
Two British artists, Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, thriving within the mid-century avant-garde, have been linked in an exhibition (2014) organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Ashmolean Museum of London. Bacon’s bona fides as a loyalist of … Continue reading