{"id":7219,"date":"2010-05-19T03:04:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T02:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2010-05-19T03:04:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T02:04:01","slug":"bob-peak-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/05\/19\/bob-peak-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Peak revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

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left: Mame (1974); right: Excalibur (1981).<\/em><\/p>\n

Matthew Peak, son of film poster artist Bob Peak, left on a comment this week on an earlier post I made about his father’s art with news of the relaunch of the Peak site<\/a>. I’m looking forward to seeing what gets posted there especially since the additions to date are such good quality. Peak was a tremendously powerful and dramatic artist whose posters are often a lot more engaging than the films they were intended to promote. He was also exceptionally versatile, as the two examples above demonstrate (via IMP Awards<\/a>), being equally adept at hard-edged graphics as he was with nebulous airbrush paintings. As with the similarly versatile Richard Amsel<\/a>, the more time passes, the more these posters seem evidence of an artistry and individuality which has vanished from the world of film design.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The art of Aquirax Uno<\/a>
\n\u2022 Alice in Acidland<\/a>
\n\u2022 Salom\u00e9 posters<\/a>
\n\u2022 Polish posters: Freedom on the Fence<\/a>
\n\u2022 Kaleidoscope: the switched-on thriller<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Robing of The Birds<\/a>
\n\u2022 Franciszek Starowieyski, 1930\u20132009<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dallamano\u2019s Dorian Gray<\/a>
\n\u2022 Czech film posters<\/a>
\n\u2022 The poster art of Richard Amsel<\/a>
\n\u2022 Bollywood posters<\/a>
\n\u2022 Lussuria, Invidia, Superbia<\/a>
\n\u2022 The poster art of Bob Peak<\/a>
\n\u2022 A premonition of Premonition<\/a>
\n\u2022 Metropolis posters<\/a>
\n\u2022 Film noir posters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

left: Mame (1974); right: Excalibur (1981). Matthew Peak, son of film poster artist Bob Peak, left on a comment this week on an earlier post I made about his father’s art with news of the relaunch of the Peak site. I’m looking forward to seeing what gets posted there especially since the additions to date … Continue reading “Bob Peak revisited”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,7,48,44],"tags":[1206,1320,117,254,574,1321,123],"class_list":["post-7219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-film","category-illustrators","category-painting","tag-aquirax-uno","tag-bob-peak","tag-dorian-gray","tag-franciszek-starowieyski","tag-kaleidoscope","tag-richard-amsel","tag-salome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Sr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}