Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997) was an American pop artists, who became a leading figure in the new art movement. HIs work defined the premise of pop art through parody. Inspired by the comic strip, Lichtenstein produced precise compostitions that documented whilw they parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style. He described pop art as "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".

I chose to look at Roy Lichenstein because during a crit I was told fine liner would not show up well when blown up to A2 therefore I was advised to use a thicker pen. At the time I did not own many thick pens therefore I decided to look at ways I could use my fine liners differently, which led me to think of comic books. This then led me to look back at pop art in particular Roy Lichenstein because I like the way his uses lines and changes the thickness - I also admire the way he uses bold colours which is something I need to try more of myself.

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Tom Jung

Tom Jung is an American advertising art director, graphic designer and illustrator best known for his movie poster art, and a motion picture storyboard artist. Born in Boston, his career began in New York where he worked in advertising as an art director. In 1958 he began to work on ad campaigns for foreign films aimed at American audiences. During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s he was a art director focusing on the design and illustration of movie posters in Hollywood. The one-sheet poster for Star Wars (1977) is among his notable work. Since the late 1990s he has worked extensively as a storyboard artist.

- IMDB Mini Biography By: Jack O'Brien (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2200560/)

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Waldemar Swierzy

Waldemar Swierzy (1931 - 2013) was a Polish Artist. 'He employed unusual concepts with a variety of techniques, frequently mirroring Polish social history from 1950s through 1980s, with a myriad of styles: folk art from the 50s, pop art from the 60s, portraits from the 70s, and TV images from the 80s In addition, his Jazz Greats series of famous American jazz personalities became so well known that he reissued them in his later years as signed lithographs.'

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The 90 Year Evolution of Movie Posters

Since the inception of cinema, movie posters have been used to promote films and create buzz. Just as the style of cinema has evolved, the design style of these promotional posters has changed. Poster printing was also a hard thing to get over in the early 1900s, the prices for the promotion images were high and not always easily printed. However things have changed in the modern day and age and as you’re about to see, the movie posters of the early 20th century are a far cry from what we see at the cinema today.

The 1920s

The 1920s was known for movie posters that employed fairly traditional type for the time and hand-drawn illustrations over stills that depicted scenes from the movie.

The 1930s

In the 1930s, we see a shift towards bolder typographic designs with a growing tendency towards illustrations focusing on main characters of the film, particularly faces, over depictions of scenes.

The 1940s

By the 1940s, we rarely see scene depictions anymore. Character illustrations are most prominent, and typographic treatments are a little more subdued after the experimentation of the 40s.

The 1950s

In the 1950s we start to see poster designers trying conceptual approaches, such as the Love in the Afternoon poster which is free of characters, emphasizing typography and subtle clues as to the movie content forming the type’s background.

The 1960s

60s posters don’t go as far as getting rid of illustrations altogether, but type plays a more important role in the layouts. The illustrations move to a more peripheral role, adorning the type.

The 1970s

An example of the fast movement of trends in the design industry, the 70s sees photographs play a big role in posters for the first time, often taking up the bulk of the canvas with type thrown in below, seemingly as an afterthought.

The 1980s

The 80s is where we start to see the movie poster in a form similar to what we’re used to seeing today. Large photographic backgrounds are more common than ever, but type and imagery are more balanced than we’ve seen in previous decades which favoured one over the other.

The 1990s

Posters of the 90s are reasonably formulaic: we’ve got the photographic backgrounds, pithy slogans at the top, and the names of headline actors sitting quietly above the name of the film, usually near the bottom of the poster.

2000s

Through the 80s and 90s we see the evolution of movie posters slow down as designers hit on a series of winning layouts. In the 2000s we see incremental improvements to keep up with trends in typography and photography, but the layout often remains the same. Towards the end of the decade as minimalism comes into vogue, that influence can be seen in the posters of movies such as Up, The Dark Knight and Buried. It’s a move away from a more balanced layout that probably won’t prove to be particularly timeless — but it does cater to the trends of the day.

Source of Information: https://creativeoverflow.net/the-90-year-evolution-of-movie-posters/

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Trainspotting (1996) Film Posters

Ed Wood (1994) Film Posters

Walkabout (1971) Film Posters

 

Trainspotting (1996) Directed by Danny Boyle

Summary: "Trainspotting is acknowledged to be one of the most original films to come out of Britain in the last decade. The multi-award-winning film based on Irvine Welsh's novel, stars Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald and Kevin McKidd in a story of drugs, survival, scams, friendship and tragedy."

Ed Wood (1994) Directed by Tim Burton

Summary: "Affectionate biopic of low-budget director Edward D Wood Jr, dubbed 'the worst director of all time'. Plotting Wood's career through all of his infamous movies - 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' among them - the film reveals his penchant for transvestism and angora sweaters."

Walkabout (1971) Directed by Nicholas Roeg

Summary: "Cinematographer Nicholas Roeg made an auspicious solo directing debut with the Australian production Walkabout. Jenny Agutter and Lucien John play a sister and brother who are stranded in the Australian outback after the suicide of their father. With the help of aborigine David Gulpilil, Agutter and John learn how to survive out of doors. Agutter's gratitude is misinterpreted as love by the aborigine; when she rebuffs him, he kills himself. Though alone again, Agutter and her brother use the skills taught them by Gulpilil to find their way back to civilization--where Agutter chooses to remember only the nicer elements of her odyssey. Walkabout combines its tale of survival with some potent commentary on the racial barriers of Australia, barriers that simply don't go away just because of random acts of kindness."