''The Barbarians'', 1960 - art by MCP
by Movie World Posters
Title
''The Barbarians'', 1960 - art by MCP
Artist
Movie World Posters
Medium
Mixed Media - Vintage Movie Poster
Description
A vintage movie poster from Spain of ''The Barbarians'', 1960.
About the artist:
MCP is the imprimatur of the graphic design and fine art company from Barcelona, Spain. It was established in the 1930s by Spanish artists Ramon Marti, Josep Clave, and Hernan Pico. It specialized in designing Spanish posters for American and European films until closing in the late 1970s.
The trio of artists and graphic designers MCP has strongly influenced the style of movie posters and the tradition of film imagery in Spain, making their style unmistakable. Despite the natural differences in their workmanship, the MCP fine art company maintains a certain uniformity of intentionality and graphics in the panorama.
The artworks are all characterized by a great compositional clearness: uniform colors, thick and marked lines, and realistic brushstrokes. The space is filled with harmony, ensuring the balance between solids and voids. MCP's posters are, moreover, underlined by a palette of recurrent colors: light blues, greens, yellows, and pastel shades, making them sophisticated and appealing objects.
The three artists came from humble upbringings. Pico, for example, had to support his family from a very young age and later worked as an apprentice wall painter. Having a knack for painting, at age 14, he enrolled at the Escola de Belles Arts in Barcelona. While there, Pico became friends with Clave and Marti, later forming MCP together, an acronym of their surnames. He continued his studies at Barcelona's prestigious Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc.
Pico taught art between 1970 and 1975 as a professor at the Escola Massana Municipal Center of Art and Design in Barcelona. His paintings are displayed in museums and private collections throughout Spain, Mexico, most other countries in Europe, and the United States.
MCP achieved its highest output of posters between 1945 and 1965, at one time employing Macario Gómez Quibus (nickname "Mac"). Mac later became a renowned independent poster artist.
Some of the well-known films they designed posters for were "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950), "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1953), "The Big Heat" (1953), and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961).
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February 17th, 2022
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