It is a protean form and protean are the goals it pursues. Glancing through so comprehensive a collection of works of art, we come to appreciate the poster can do simply anything, and do it in almost any medium-pencil or crayon, gouache or oil, photography, or sometimes a mingling of photography, painting, and decoupage. Masterpiece Theatre began its tenth anniversary season (see small logo at right) with a serialized dramatization of Crime and Punishment.Chermayeff communicates the anguish of Dostoevsky’s masterwork with the image of a blood-spattered prison cell wall glimpsed through a small barred window with the title scrawled in chalk above. … commissioned for the purpose of announcing-and at the same time celebrating-events funded by Mobil in many fields of cultural activity… These posters have in common technical virtuosity of a lofty order and the ability to provoke a wide range of emotions, from merriment to sadness, giving us now the promise-filled faces of children, now the grimly resigned faces of men at war. “For nearly twenty years, Mobil has been a tireless patron of the art of poster design. When Mobil agreed to underwrite PBS programming in 1971, they launched not only an iconic era of TV, but an impressive poster repertoire as well. Mobil enlisted the top American designers of the time: Chermayeff & Geismar, Seymour Chwast, Paul Davis, Edward Gorey, Richard Mantel, Emanuel Schongut, and more-and they churned out consistently innovative and intoxicating designs that became the standard for poster advertising. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators.
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