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Leopoldo Metlicovitz

(Trieste 1868 – Ponte Lambro/Como 1944)

Pittore, cartellonista, illustratore e scenografo teatrale di origine oriundo-dalmata (il cognome originario della famiglia era Metlicovich), inizia a lavorare giovanissimo; a quattordici anni riesce a mantenersi fuori di casa viaggiando per l’Italia probabilmente grazie all’attività commerciale del padre Leopoldo, che possiede una ditta di minuteria meccanica fine a Trieste.

Bron: biografie Leopoldo Metlicovitz | meer werk op fineart-prints-posters.com

Le Cirque d’Hiver a traversé les époques sans perdre de sa gloire. En sillonnant les routes du monde entier, il a transmis la joie et l’émotion dans les coeurs des petits et des grands. Des centaines d’artistes sont passés sous ses chapiteaux. On se souvient de Léotard, qui y inventa l’art du trapèze, mais aussi de Muriel Hermine dans son ballet aquatique. C’est en 1934 que les Frères Bouglione reprennent le Cirque d’Hiver. C’est le début d’une passion dont la flamme fut transmise à la nouvelle génération. Ils ont réussi à donner un souffle nouveau au cirque. Pour permettre à tous de revivre cette épopée, les archives du Cirque d’Hiver vous livrent leurs plus beaux souvenirs, qui firent que, dans toutes les langues, le nom Bouglione représente le cirque.

Bron: cirquedhiver.com

During its brief and stormy lifetime, Buffalo Springfield broke ground for what became country rock. In March of 1967, Buffalo Springfield went Top Ten with “For What It’s Worth,” written after the Sunset Strip riots. The group then began to disintegrate, recording its second album on the run. Recording in Los Angeles allowed them to work with some of the best available musicians from the area, such as Jim Messina. Neil Young was ambivalent to the group’s fame and eventually left the group to record on his own. Stephen Stills also left to form Crosby, Stills, and Nash, with David Crosby from the Byrds and Graham Nash from the Hollies.

Bron: wolfgangsvault.com | thebuffalospringfield.com

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Leslie Ragan was a speciality illustrator who had a particular niche in the market, and who stood in it unchanged for most of his career. He painted machines moving fast through landscapes. He was born in Iowa and went to the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines and then to the Art Institute in Chicago.

He designed posters an illustrations using opaque watercolours on Upson Board – wood panel found in timberyards and which has a pebbled surface. The surface is fixed with denatured alcahol and gum. His design, a combination of site observation and tracings from photographs is projected upon the board with a Balopticon ( a sort of sophisticated slide projector). The panel is then worked up flat on a table to allow the paint to dry without drips and run. ( see Ernest Watson, Forty Illustrators and How they Work, Watson Guptill New York 1946, the main source of reference on mid century commercial illustration in America.

His major campaigns were for New York Grand Central and for Budd. For examples of his work for The Budd Manufacturing Company …

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