Website review: Richard Amsel
junglenergy discovered this in Art History
•13 reviews since Nov 8, 2007
art-history, art, graphic-design
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junglenergy discovered 9 months ago- dude who did the Raiders Of The Lost Ark poster plus many other cool pieces.
- lo-fi-samurai rated 8 months ago
- whoa. art nouveau? i think so.
- TwoWorlds rated 8 months ago
- You don't see this kind of thing in movie poster design anymore. Kind of sad, really.
- KittyKitten rated 8 months ago
- Richard Amsel (1947 - 1985) Hired for first film poster work (Hello Dolly) while he was still attending art school. In his short life and career, Amsel produced a number of posters, often far better than the movies they depicted, and usually ignored when those films were brought out on DVD (strange, as at least once he was hired to do video art for a 1983 re-release of a classic film: A Star Is Born). In addition to film, Amsel had a strong career as a TV Guide cover artist and did album covers for Bette Midler. Amsel's style was a combination of pulpishness (strong outlines) and the swirling curves of art noveau. He could even do a reasonable (and purposeful) emulation of J C Leyendecker (see The Sting).
- M-Nome rated 9 months ago
- Man, I love that movie! Its cool to know who did the artwork for it.
- LeonardoDaVinci rated 9 months ago
- Nice, artistic style. The perfect example of an artist who's work you may well have seen a dozen times, but whose name you probably never knew. Too bad he's gone now.
- squeegy76 rated 9 months ago
- I was recently thinking about this style of art from the seventies with the strong colors and swirly lines, but couldn't figure out how to learn who the artist was. Actually, there were probably several who employed this style. It was everywhere. But maybe this Amsel guy started it. Some of these look very Munch-like. Obviously a heavy influence.
- slocum77a rated 9 months ago
- i remember seeing a lot of these posters when the films they were advertising played in theaters. seeing them all at one site reminded me of how wonderful they were.
