''Jean de la lune'', 1931, movie poster painting by Jean-Adrien Mercier is a painting by Movie World Posters which was uploaded on November 1st, 2022.
''Jean de la lune'', 1931, movie poster painting by Jean-Adrien Mercier
Base painting of the vintage movie poster for ''Jean de la lune'', 1931.
Base art is the poster artwork after the text has been digitally... more
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''Jean de la lune'', 1931, movie poster painting by Jean-Adrien Mercier
Artist
Movie World Posters
Medium
Painting - Movie Posters
Description
Base painting of the vintage movie poster for ''Jean de la lune'', 1931.
Base art is the poster artwork after the text has been digitally removed.
About the artist:
Jean-Adrien Mercier (August 12, 1899, Angers, France – May 15,1995, Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire) was a French illustrator, poster artist, and advertising designer.
He studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) in Angers and at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs (National School of Decorative Arts) in Paris in 1921. In 1924 he began working as a designer and painter of French film posters.
From 1925 through 1942, Mercier designed more than 120 movie posters, including many for leading directors such as Jean Renoir, Abel Gance, and Sacha Guitry. Collections of his work are currently held at museums and libraries in France.
Mercier's style is recognizable like a few others for its originality and formal purity. His images are almost always created with geometric shapes, stylized as if they were outlines, cut-outs of a more complex picture.
Because of their regular geometry, they almost look like images from the design of Russian Constructivism or schematic but flashy artworks of Second Futurism. The French artist uses primary colors -yellow, blue, red, but also white and black fields- on neutral backgrounds. There is order, cleanliness, essentiality. Mercier communicates in the most effective way possible: through disarming simplicity.
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November 1st, 2022
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