Tag Archives: Marcel Vertes

ANIMATING THE SILENCE OF NATURE IN VINTAGE POSTERS and GRAPHIC ART

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Jim Clark

http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/artistic-magazines-womans-home-companion-february-1932.html We tend to regard the presence of nature being largely passive, a stage upon which humankind acts and exploits. However, there is another way to see this matter, and our vintage poster and graphic blog today wants to suggest … Continue reading →

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AWKWARD AND FASCINATING FIGURES IN VINTAGE GRAPHICS

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Jim Clark

  http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/pochoir-venetian-ladies-c1920.html One of the joys of our work with vintage fashion graphics is encountering the assurance and brilliance of many of the major artists of the art deco era. Designers like, Georges Lepape, George Barbier, Andre Marty, Umberto Brunelleschi … Continue reading →

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CHRISTMAS 1943—NEAR AND DEAR

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Jim Clark

http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/artistic-magazines-harpers-bazaar-december-1943.html Long before there was Cyber Monday there was the more direct World War II, presenting, among other things, a weighty Christmas shopping dilemma. Wrapped up in the glorious Christmas shopping number seen above, we bring to you here (with … Continue reading →

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THAT 1940s LOOK AND HEART!

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Jim Clark

The 1940s brought to light, as with earlier decades and epochs, wonders of invention and tantalizing glimpses of sensibility teetering upon really breaking loose. Perhaps because that moment of the forties came to be pummelled by war of unprecedented ferocity … Continue reading →

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THE POWERS OF SOLITUDE IN VINTAGE GRAPHIC ART

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Jim Clark

The bountiful graphic instalment of lithographic marketing tends to be a blazingly public affair. Much of the stream of vignettes to that effect involves figures more or less directly addressing the public concerning the virtues of the product or service. … Continue reading →

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PATTERN DESIGN WHEN THE GOING WAS ESPECIALLY GOOD

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Jim Clark

Our first instalment of enjoying textiles illustrated by major 20th century artists had to do with unlikely figures–Picasso and Warhol–doing justice to a rather obscure endeavor. (You don’t think of either of those luminaries avoiding the limelight.) In this second … Continue reading →

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GRAPHIC ART, GETTING INTO THE SEASON

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Jim Clark

This design is titled, “The Christmas Spirit;” and the designer, Marcel Vertes (among other things an Academy Award winner for art and costume design), has excitingly introduced with it a fascinating preoccupation to be found in the work of a … Continue reading →

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