Art of the Poster

Saatchi & Saatchi
Silk Cut Advert
c. 1984

Alberto Giacometti
Woman with her throat cut
c. 1932

Oliviero Toscani
Benneton Advert
1990’s

Alfred Leete
Your country needs you (2nd version)
1914-16

John Bull WWI recruiting poster
c. 1915

Belle Époque

“…streets themselves conspire against the eye, the mind; the
ever changing décor which covers the city’s walls forcefully draws
our attention, and even the busiest, most sceptical passer-by
must submit to the charm of the sight that has been flung into his
path…Advertising has called upon Art for help; it has borrowed
the poetry of allegories, it has become image…”
Richard Marx

Toulouse Lautrec
Moulin Rouge: La Goulue
1891

Hiroshige
Night View of Saruwakacho
1856-58

H. Gerbault
Chocolat Carpentier,
1897

Jules Cheret Jules Cheret
Folies Berger: La Loïe Fuller Le Pays des Fées
1893 1893

Alfons Mucha
Job
1897

Lucian Bernhard
Manoli: Gibson Girl
1910

The Beggarstaff Brothers
Harper’s Magazine copyrighted in
America
1895

Stenberg Brothers
A screw from another machine
1927

Stenberg Brothers
Big sorrow of a small woman
1920’s

A.M. Cassandre
Dubonnet
1932

Rafael Enriquez
Foreign Debt/ IMF,
1983

“ Every image embodies a way of seeing…The painter’s way of
seeing is reconstituted by the marks he makes on the canvas or
paper. Yet, although every image embodies a way of seeing, our
perception or appreciation of an image depends also upon our
way of seeing.”
John Berger

Film Poster:
The Great White Hope
Dir: Martin Ritt
1970

Film Poster:
This gun for hire
Dir: Frank Tuttle
1942

Film Poster:
La Dolce Vita
Dir: Frederico Fellini
1960

Film Poster:
Gigi
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
1958

Film poster:
This is England
Dir: Shane Meadows
2006

Film Poster:
Quadrophenia
Dir: Franc Roddam
1979