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Category Archives: Poster&Graphic Art
LADIES IN ADVERTISING
So often you’ll hear that advertising demeans women, that it tends to imply that they are mere physical entities with no more-elevated features. This seems a dynamite argument, until you stop to consider, “What’s wrong with physical riches?” Sure, calculative … Continue reading
MILANO, THE SUPERB CITY
Milano is an ancient centre with an ultra-modern heart. Just as its cathedral is the most stunningly designed instance to be found, its artisans continue to generate all manner of products at a level of instantly recognizable excellence.
VALENTINES IN VINTAGE GRAPHICS
An old pop song runs, “Love is a many-splendored thing;” and we have the testimony of a vast array of graphic art to establish how varied loving relations can be. One of the more challenging but also. I think, more … Continue reading
THE LADY VANISHES, BUT THE POSTERS DON’T
In 1938, Alfred Hitchcock (later, settling in Hollywood, to become widely known for classics like Vertigo, North by Northwest, Rear Window and Psycho) put together a “comic thriller,” called, The Lady Vanishes. Very much in the throes of anxiety about … Continue reading
MORE UZELAC, MORE MARVELS
Even now, on Sundays, all around Paris, street musicians strive to keep alive the affection and wit of the City’s Belle Epoque and avant garde heyday. They pass around the lyrics of their songs to a loyal following; and, for … Continue reading
THE SEAGRAM MUSEUM: A SHORT BUT VERY SWEET DREAM
In the early 1980′s the Seagram Corporation developed a beverage museum on the premises of the first Seagram Distillery, in Waterloo, Ontario. This was a cavernous structure for ageing the spirits, replete with barrels in place as they were in … Continue reading
THE LITHOGRAPHS OF PIERRE BONNARD
Pierre Bonnard was a French painter and print-maker acutely committed to avant-garde efforts as commonly designated Art Nouveau. His special take upon the matter became known as Les Nabis, a concentration upon delicate minutiae of figures and settings, and the … Continue reading
DELIGHT IN THE NEW
Here we are, all impressed by the passage of another year and the advent of a world changing fast. We’re not going into the ominous connotations of that sentence—all too pressing for each of us. Instead, let’s delight in fine … Continue reading
THE PARIS PAINTINGS OF ALBERT MARQUET
Today I want to take a look at how Albert Marquet (1875-1947), a close friend of Henri Matisse and generally regarded as a second-rate practitioner of post-Impressionist painting, found his way to harmonics that still speak to us.
Posted in Current Events, Fine Art, Illustrators, Poster&Graphic Art
Tagged Albert Marquet, French sensibility, Paris, Roger de Valerio, travel, travel posters
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ART NOUVEAU GRAPHICS
Today we’ll try to make amends for ignoring hitherto a great design endeavor, namely, Art Nouveau, particularly in its graphic desigm output. During its heyday in the period just before World War I, Art Nouveau thrilled to a new and … Continue reading