''The Vanquished'', 1953 - art by Osvaldo Venturi
by Movie World Posters
Title
''The Vanquished'', 1953 - art by Osvaldo Venturi
Artist
Movie World Posters
Medium
Mixed Media - Vintage Movie Poster
Description
A vintage Italian movie poster of ''The Vanquished'', 1953.
About the artist:
Osvaldo Mario Venturi (1900-1989, Buenos Aires,) was a popular painter, watercolorist and movie poster designer from Argentina.
Venturi graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1923. He went on to design posters for numerous films directed by Lucas Demare and Mario Soffic, among others. By the 1940s, he had become a leading designer of movie posters.
His design style centered around realism, relying on intense colors and strong brush strokes. He typically depicted stars as emotionally expressive, especially in his portraits for foreign melodrama films, a popular genre among Argentinean audiences.
Venturi’s movie posters are characterized by a vivid chromatic palette and structured through the overlapping of veils: they seem bright watercolors. The representation of the protagonists' faces makes them unique. Venturi depicts their heads almost floating in a space rich of details, like in an intricate dream. His portraits are loud caricatures; they load emotions, gestures, attitudes, and almost exaggerated expressions. Influenced by the popular Argentinian genre of melodrama and its strong emotional power, a poster from Venturi is never cold or detached.
Search for "Venturi" to see more of his art.
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December 26th, 2021
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