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Category Archives: Poster&Graphic Artists
A VINTAGE GRAPHIC TOUR THROUGH NEW CARS & OLD CARS!
Electric cars are on the road right now and we have to pause and savor what a shift they bring our way. As you can see from the beautiful and critically acclaimed example shown here, namely, the Tesla Model S … Continue reading
Posted in Art Deco Posters&Graphics, Current Events, Illustration Art, Illustrators, Industrial Design, Modernist Posters&Graphics, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists
Tagged Andre Marty, Charles Relyea, electric cars, French vintage pochoir, Pierre Fix-Masseau, Pierre Mourgue, Rene Vincent, urbanity, vintage automobile graphics, vintage automobile posters, Vintage L'Illustration magazine, vintage Revista Ford magazines
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AIRPLANE GRAPHICS—THE SKY’S THE LIMIT!
Hier/Aujourd’hui Air Show 1931 ;S.Peratt ;46″ x 61 1/2″ In 1931, the composition in the foreground Aujourd’hui was very today (while the white, biplane figure was very yesterday). Time flies. But the mystery and romance of people travelling in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art Deco Posters&Graphics, Illustration Art, Illustrators, Modernist Posters&Graphics, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists
Tagged Benny & Peigno, Bernard Villemot, Geo Ham, Illustrated vintage magazines, Lucien Boucher, Ruehl Heckman, vintage artistic magazine, vintage aviation posters, Vintage Transportation Posters
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PIERRE BONNARD—A COLORIST THRILLED BY WORLDS LACKING COLOR
A plaza at sunset, and the starlings fill the skies with their inventive motions. The populace discovers a Paris few of us know. Bonnard’s subdued lithograph intends to be savored for a long time. Don’t rush away, or you’ll miss … Continue reading
THE GREAT UPHEAVAL: ART PICTURING EARTHQUAKES
Over the past few years, there have been several exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario which excitingly provided close-ups of a plunge into a massive, disturbing and thrilling change in orientation from that of a longstanding mainstream rationality. Efforts … Continue reading
GEORGE BARBIER AND THE NECESSITY OF EXTRAVAGANCE
Paris’ reputation as the center of brilliant elegance was the upshot of a long history of ruthless efforts to, if not obviate a critical mass of rustic obtuseness, at least circumvent it. Versailles and the chateaux of the Loire valley … Continue reading
NORMAN ROCKWELL AND THE PULSE OF AMERICA
For a number of decades, graphic artist. Norman Rockwell, sent forth a large quantity of illustrations which seemed— to most Americans and most non-Americans— to capture the essence of the Republic. This was a portrayal (to a great extent emanating … Continue reading
KNOWN FOR THEIR CARING—BRITISH VINTAGE GRAPHICS!
This exquisite lithographic poster, by the very accomplished and special, Austin Cooper, is a paradigm of vintage British graphics. There is the love for history, literacy and the land and sea. And there is modelling of persons in such a … Continue reading
Posted in Art Deco Posters&Graphics, Illustration Art, Illustrators, Modernist Posters&Graphics, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists
Tagged Austin Cooper, Tom Purvis, Vintage British posters, Vintage London Magazine, Vintage Transportation Graphics, Vintage Transportation Posters, Vintage Travel Posters
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BACK TO SCHOOL: PUTTING ONE’S BEST FOOT FORWARD!
A 50′s co-ed, working late!
MORE THAN A GAME: SPORTS AS SEEN BY VINTAGE GRAPHICS
Oftentimes, it is the setting that provides the main delight within a sports moment. The football game occasion, eclipsed by miniature golf, which is in turn upstaged by the bumpin’ refreshment corridor.
OLD GRAPHICS, SURPRISINGLY YOUNG
Thank you for celebrating with us our One-Hundredth I Desire Vintage Poster blog! We’ll take a look at graphics a hundred years old (and then some). Though they’ve been around quite a while, these works are far from obsolete. Here … Continue reading