Above: Illustration for
Playboy magazine
Above: Portrait of Raquel Welch for The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Above: Kooky kitsch—Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole, How to Steal a Million
The quality of movie poster art in the 1960’s often eclipsed that of the films they represented, as a new vanguard of magazine, comic book and book cover illustrators took to the Left Coast. Frank Frazetta, Mort Drucker and Jack Davis were instrumental in making the decade swing, while among the lesser-known talents lurked Robert McGinnis, a cheesecake artist par excellence. His work (with Frank McCarthy) on the ads for the James Bond films Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and Diamonds Are Forever are vibrant; while paintings for Playboy and other men’s magazines encapsulate a time, attitude and lifestyle of the post-WWII nouveau riche. Think: women wearing elbow gloves and men in tuxedos downing martoonies in a salmon-and-teal universe, mindful of manners and poise, void of children and McDonald’s.
Robert McGinnis at The Painted Anvil
Thunderball poster art
You Only Live Twice poster art
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service poster art
Diamonds Are Forever poster art
1 Comments:
I saw the poster for the remake of Bad News Bears. It's like a watered down version of the Jack Davis poster for the original version.
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