One night with Venus a lifetime with Mercury.
I wonder how much that colour scheme is a result of sodium-vapour street lamps (outdoors) and low-wattage incandescent bulbs (inside)?
It wasn't until I read the text that I realisec it was supposed to be a skull.
This was from a 2009 campaign in Toronto but has a nice retro-look poster.
I do like:
Starring Syphillis ■ You ■ And You ■ And Maybe You Too
It was an interesting experience at the Museo de la Reina Sofia to see a painting of a man lying directly in front of a car, headlight spotlighting him, apparently thrown clear of a crash, and then to look at the label and read "Self-Portrait."
And after searching up that link for this comment, it seems the artist was a fascist!
The guy shielding his face at the bottom of the poster in 4 reminded me of one of the set of recaptioned 2000s DHS warnings, specifically:
If you've become a radiation mutant with a deformed hand, remember to close the window. No one wants to see that crap.
Was hard to find, but complete set here.
If you are Vin Diesel yell really loud.
Thank you so much for that. Still solid gold.
Thanks, that is is nice. I do love sharing and learning about images, one of the real joys of the internet.
Lately I've been enjoying Kawase Hasui, to the point of considering an original print, though they're expensive. Hayao Miyazaki is apparently a fan. Japanese woodblock prints have great pallettes, water-based inks rather than western lithography oil-based ones. Color-separated copies lose a lot, IMO. Wikipedia has a list of US museums with prints.
Also I've probably mentioned him before, but Virgil Finlay (his best work is pen and ink) who did a lot of amazing pulp illustration in the thirties , his work is maybe kind of in tune with the Dali image. Finding high-resolution images online takes some looking-
https://www.collectorshowcase.fr/images2/finlay_03blindspot.jpg
Kawase Hasui
Lovely, I didn't know.
Maria Popova did a very nice writeup about him:
https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/22/hasui-kawase-prints/
11: Those are gorgeous! This
https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/03/23/chiura-obata-yosemite/
was linked from the Hasui article, and was interesting and full of beautiful art, too. I had known nothing about this era in Japanese woodcut prints before I saw some of the collection at the Rijksmuseum. Now I still don't know anything but that it can be gorgeous.
Turns out I have practically all of the images in 11 saved on Pinterest. I love them so much.
Love love love Hasui. Another great printmaker from the shin-hanga era was Hiroshi Yoshida. He went to the Grand Canyon!
Uniting the themes of anti-STD advertising and Japanese woodblock print: the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
