My impression is that generally speaking French poster art tended to be more creative/looser.
Good examples that spring to mind are Les Diaboliques and Lift To The Scaffold. Think it rarer in US posters that you get something similarly more abstract or impressionistic like the On The Beach style B. Also Bass' work obviously, but not exactly popular with the studios. Also benefit from choosing to stick with stone litho far longer, when using offset was an option long available, and used alongside stone litho. Not sure exactly what the reasons were for this, perhaps scale of USA made a greater case for offset. French printers perhaps didn't invest in upgrading the presses. But imagine that if literal (photographically accurate) likenesses were more of a priority in France, stone litho would have died out earlier. May be wrong, but that's my impression. Though the French weren't as far out there as the Poles. Sent from my iPhone On 14 Jun 2013, at 08:28, filip de volder <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kirby , since there were tens of thousands of different posters made since > the beginning of movie posters there's of course a lot of french ones that > look wrong for sure , but since the topic was on what posters look really > right french artists soubie and mascii made a lot of wonderful créations > > Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:30:13 -0500 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOPO] ICONIC BILLBOARD > To: [email protected] > > Filip et al, > > I have to say that there are lots of French posters that look really, really > wrong as well. > The Italians are the best at this, and they get it wrong, too. > > I think a blind test of illustrations of stars lifted from posters would > reveal that we often accept > that an image is so and so because the poster tells us it is so and so. > > Other than the economics of the issue, one of the reasons that I'm sure the > studios were happy to move > to offset is that they could use photographs of the stars as well as art. > Photographs would insure a > higher recognition factor I think. > > Kirby McDaniel > MovieArt Original Film Posters > P.O. Box 4419 > Austin TX 78765-4419 > 512 479 6680 www.movieart.com > mobile 512 589 5112 > > On Jun 13, 2013, at 10:32 AM, filip de volder <[email protected]> wrote: > > as for french posters , there's really a lot of them that were done by great > artists and look really right (though the french Niagara also looks terribly > wrong ) french artists soubie and mascii were really top ! filip > > > Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:44:08 +0200 > > From: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [MOPO] ICONIC BILLBOARD > > To: [email protected] > > > > The first poster that comes to my mind is the french LE MEPRIS: > > > > http://www.filmposter.net/movieposters/poster/movie/original/le-mepris-contempt-3/ > > > > Helmut > > > > Am 13.06.2013 um 15:43 schrieb Kirby McDaniel: > > > > > Marilyn's posters - across here entire filmography - often to do not look > > > like Marilyn. Very few of the illustrations get > > > it really right. Most of them are Marilyn-like. This is often the case > > > with film posters. The image of Veronica Lake on THIS GUN FOR HIRE does > > > not look like > > > Veronica Lake. Some Blonde is pictured. > > > > > > So here's a question for the list - excepting photographs - which > > > illustrations on film posters really get the image of a star - > > > doesn't matter which one - REALLY right? > > > > > > I point to the Roger Souble portrait of Veronica Lake. There is art that > > > really captures the look and the essence of the star's appeal. > > > > > > K. > > > > > > > > > > > > Kirby McDaniel > > > MovieArt Original Film Posters > > > P.O. Box 4419 > > > Austin TX 78765-4419 > > > 512 479 6680 www.movieart.com > > > mobile 512 589 5112 > > > > > > On Jun 13, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Zeev Drach <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> Gorgeous poster but is it just me or does Marilyn not quite look like > > >> Marilyn on all posters on this title. > > >> > > >> Zeev > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kirby > > >> McDaniel > > >> Sent: June 13, 2013 12:56 AM > > >> To: [email protected] > > >> Subject: [MOPO] ICONIC BILLBOARD > > >> > > >> http://www.movieart.com/niagara-1953-385/ > > >> > > >> Kirby McDaniel > > >> MovieArt Original Film Posters > > >> P.O. 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