Or ...in my view it is Exactly the OPPOSITE. It was looking very simple and often not so polished, but ...in essence it was much better then todays polished , and arteficially enhanced world. Concrete and plastics, sillicons and fillers on steroids.
We have entered a period of descent into the lowest common denominator in terms of taste and quality. Once travel was sold to the discerning, with the arrival of package tours it is sold to all.
@@geoffreypiltz271 remember "Symphsons " episode ... when Homer and Flanders visited Holy land ...in the middle Est... Very nice portrayal of two extremes ... Lol. It was so funny to wastch when big dilema of Modenithy hits the screen.
What a great line : "may not have been a better world back then, but it was undoubtedly a better looking one". Exactly the point of those posters, to push the boundaries of your imagination. Thanks, a lot.
This was just SWELL! I'm a watercolorist and have done sets of posters myself. I will be forever drawn, pun intended, to these stylized works of art. Thank you for keeping them alive dear Sir.
Thanks for the appreciation. The dominance of generic photography in the media these days can never come close to the pleasure we used to get from illustrated images on the high street and elsewhere.
Over the weekend family stayed at a B&B in Texas... in the "parlor" there many issues of The Saturday Evening Post from the '50's and '60's ... I skipped over the written content just feasted my eyes on gorgeous travel and product ads!!
Great Survey and much appreciated. "Travel posters" are remarkably accessible and still evocative despite the internet. I especially appreciate the attribution, too!
You seriously don't understand how much I love your channel. Whenever I am depressed or have intense art block, I put on your videos while drinking coffee, which brightens my day. Lovely video as always. Thank you.
Another gem, Pete. Thank you!..also for putting names to familiar images. I have always been gripped by illustrated travel posters and cards. Their graphic impact as house art is unbeatable. Monsieur Z (a Polish-French graphic artist) has designed many retro images for the Côte d'Azur resorts and I've even done some for my own town of Meerbusch.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. I was aware of the retro styled posters being currently produced but left them out as they aren;t functional, however attractive and convincing. I nearly included one by mistake.
Thank you so much, I love the art in travel posters. The colorful and elaborate Art Nouveau advertisements of the late 1890s, early 1900s are my favorite.💕
Many thanks for your appreciation of this video. And if you'll pardon my shameless plug for the channel I hope you'll find more to enjoy. There are certainly a lot of illustrators featured from that period.
One of the first things I did with the advent of the internet, was to create slideshows of these posters for my very expensive color monitors, between work sessions. Thanks to Pete, I can now name some of the real heroes--the illustrators.
Many thanks as always for your appreciation and comments, and for urging others to subscribe. There's been a small surge in numbers of late and if this keeps up I might make that 100,000 before I kick the bucket.
Deeeeeelightful, thanks so much! Janusz Grabianski is my favourite among many fave illustrators. His fairy tale pictures made my childhood, & his ads are genius!
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. Grabianski features in several of the videos I've made and I really like his work. In fact he is on my current "to do" list with many others, so although I can promise he will have his own video I have no idea when. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
Bravo 👏 - the aesthetic illumination of ideas is making a comeback in the form of Steelbox Movie covers … … and I’ll never forget the day my niece told me about the reemergence of Vinyl Records. 😊 I believe in the power of Image to go beyond the picture.
Even as I started to memorize the names of the artists I liked, I knew deep down that my memory was not up to the task. I blame you, Pete, for too much of a good thing. God, it sort of reminds me of those posters that Lautrec made for nightclubs, that were glued randomly to walls, only to disappear from the elements or someone just tearing them down. All those beautiful images, so ephemeral. Thanks again, Pete.
Many thanks for your flattering comment. You can always go back and freeze frames to get the names of those you'd like to hunt down. And you hit the nail on the head about the ephemeral nature of such images, as opposed to those hanging on the walls of museums and galleries. It's the curse of illustration.
There's something so true about your comments at the end about how nowadays we can do virtual tours of any place on the planet and while that has been a great tool to avoid any nasty surprises, it doesn't capture the imagination as these old posters did since now your expectations are grounded 100% in reality detracting from the sense of discovery when traveling. "It may not have been a better world back then, but it was undoubtedly a better-looking one" Amazing video, cheers.
Thanks as always for your appreciation of the content of this video and my efforts in presenting it to the best of my abilities. Such comments always make my day,
Ah yes, those rail posters really were immensely evocative. I remember when lovely steam trains had carriages and above the luggage rack there were always great little posters of destinations.
This was a treat for me, as Travel Posters are one of my favourite forms of art work. I didn't know why this was until you said that they " capture the imagination", and I think that is their secret. Thanks for another great episode Pete.
We have always loved the genre of travel-posters and we enjoyed them whenever you presented them in your 'unsung heroes' series. Lovely to see them collected like this in your video!
The quality of work that has gone into these videos really makes this channel such a criminally underrated one. Thank you for your work Pete! I wonder, would you consider making a video giving us some insight into your research and narrative process? You make building the narrative look so easy and I would really enjoy better understand how you approach something like this.
Many thanks for your appreciation of this video and my contribution to the channel in general. You aren;t the first to suggest such a video - but on the other hand it hasn't been exactly a torrent of requests. If I'm honest I struggle to see how such a video would be of interest to the majority of my viewers. But I never rule anyting out and i may well warm to the idea somewhere down the line. But in the meantime, there's no big secret about it. Once I decide on a subject I attack the internet with searches and dig until I find some approximation of what I need. Mostly I rely on there being enough pictures (usually at least 150) and construct a narrative around that, based on the years the images were created.
Your channel was recommended by someone that I follow, on utube. Was a great move on his part. I wouldn't have known of you, without him. Big shout out for That Opal Guy, please. Greetings from the Little Desert area, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺. 😊
When I worked at Disney Studios I hung posters from Ludwig Hohlwein in my office. Wonderful video. These posters captured the creative imagination of travel back then.
Many thanks for your comment and appreciation. Nice to hear from a fellow Hohwein admirer. If you weren't aware of it there is a video decicated to him exclusively on the channel. (shameless plug on my part)
Very inspiring, I'm an artist in the tiki scene(mostly wood carving), growing up in the 70/80s in a cold place I always dreamed of far flung exotic locations, especially Polynesia. The original King Kong and later Godzilla movies like Mothra added to my fascination. Thanks for the video.
I hope that author is familiar with the book "Come to norden" which accompanied an exhibition of travel posters advertising scandinavian coutries in Nordic Museum in Stockholm a couple of years ago. I visited it and was impressed. Thank you for covering this topic, great presentation as always!
@@petebeard That's not a problem at all, I just thought that I might turn Your attention to this book as it is a good resource and excellent addition to exhibition I was lucky to visit while in Stockholm. Thanks again for the video!
The love of beauty for its own sake is one of the four pillars driving human life. Thanks Pete, for another deep dive; and nobody would mind if you did a sequence along the same lines.
A plethora of styles and destinations, so many of them an inspiration to pack the bags and hurry off to any or all of these exciting places. Alas, the internet has killed off this particular market. But no virtual tour can give the impression of a place that some artists have imbued with enchantment, phantasy and style. Life may not have been better, but it was less uniform. Thank you for an entertaining and interesting trip
Hello again and many thanks for another favourable response. "Plethora" - what a great word and I wish I had used it somewhere in the video now. Don't be surprised if I hijack it somewhwer down the line.
Thanks for your appreciation, and if I can do anything to increase awareness of these largely forgotten talents then I feel I'm doing something worthwhile
Top shelf, Pete! My illustration business today is completely informed by the golden age of the travel poster, especially the vibrant posterised style. This video had me ooo-ing and ahh-ing the whole way. Wonderful commentary and sign off too!
When I finished watching this video, it was just like I came out of a University lecture by professor Peter Beard. Large images on the wall with the lights, turning low, and Professor Beard, giving the narrative and explaining the history of the selections shown. And towards the end, I heard a sound in his voice of love for such great works of art. Frank
Many thanks for your kind words about my efforts to make the channel as interesting as I could. Funnily enough (or maybe not) it was delivering lectures similar to these videos using the big screen when I was teaching that got me thinking about putting all this stuff out into the world. Now the audience is considerably bigger I'm pleased to say.
The photographic posters "UNIFIED BY BOTH THEIR LACK OF IMAGINATION AND CHARACTER" precisely describes all holiday advertising since the invention of the camera. Thanks for that little gem, Pete. I am going to print and frame that for my studio!
Some amazing and beautiful artwork created to sell traveling. So many of these are still very evocative even now. Great overview of Travel Poster history!
It's incredible seeing the posters evolve. I'm sure the methods to produce the posters went through changes too, but their ability to reproduce full color posters for the last100 years shows how they mastered the printing process well before then. Making full color images for books, in a smaller format must have been difficult early on. I think the color on all of the posters is exceptional. Thanks for another excellent exhibit.
Many thanks again for your appreciation. I must admit that I was very surprised to see just how long traditional stone lithography endured as the method for printing many of these posters. Then I found out it reproduced much cleaner than 4 colour offset as there were no dot screens involved.
I'm glad you enjoyed this video - it was a difficult one to put together and took far longer than the solo spots. Worth it in the end, I like to think.
The amount of great art that you pull together for these videos is immensely appreciated. Ive got so many more people to look into further now. I particularly loved the stuff by Julien Lacaze. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. I ws spoiled for choice when it came to a title page but it had to be that one in the end. It said exactly what I wanted to.
A superb overview, Pete. Thank you! The video could have been twice as long and you still would have a wealth of illustrations to choose from and it would have been just as mesmerizing. A better-looking world indeed.
Many thanks for your appreciation. And I would make this - and other - videos longer, but somewhat depressingly average view time is less than half of the video's length. If all my viewers were as keen as you it would be a different story.
Thanks for this video, Pete. I have long been an admirer of travel posters, especially those relating to the railways. Though I have to say the last time I was in Harrogate it was not as warm and sunny as that poster depicted. We had gone there for the Christmas Fair and it was cold, windy and the rain was coming down in stair rods. Some kind shop owner had given me my purchased items in a paper bag. About 20 minutes later it gave up the unequal struggle in the rain and fell apart. By that time I was so wet I knew how it felt.
This was fascinating and a treat for the eyes. Thank you for sharing this great art and your knowledge! These videos help me wind down at night so well
Hi Pete, you have outdone yourself. Simply spectacular right down to the choice of music and the tempo and "vibe". The poster is my favorite form of art. and your choices are all in my selection of favorites. When I became hooked on art in junior high and high school, 6 plus decades ago, I concentrated on posters. This video has gone to the top of my list of your presentations. Thanks so much. Now onto coasters !!
Hello again and thanks a lot for your appreciation once more. I must confess I was very pleased with this video once completed. I nearly gave up on it a few times as the research drove me nuts, compared to a simple more biographical piece. But I'm glad I didn't give up.
That was wonderful! I love the graphic style of so many of these artists and posters many of whom I had never seen I have started screen printing later in life and hope to be able to work in this style. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the comment and I'm glad you appreciated the work of the illustrators featured in the video. I would imagine that silkscreen would be ideal to create similar images to quite a few of those included.
Just wonderful. I must confess; I buy cat-themed calendars and plan to frame the pictures in frames to decorate my home. I got "Cats in Masterpieces", "Cats in Film" and "Cats in Dickensian Clothing". OK, so they are digital, but they sure are witty and attractive.
Collectors, collect! I’m currently residing in Mexico and will definitely keep an eye out for vintage posters about Acapulco and the like. Some of the old Latin American illustrated movies posters and magazine covers you see at fleas markets here are marvelous. Thank you. ✨
Undoubtedly Pete. Thanks for this. Some of these are breathtaking. The rest are so visually alluring that they certainly served their eye-catching advertising purpose. I'll have to try to find the one with my home town of Cleveland. I remember the Quantas posters, that happy sea-turtle brought me right back to the late 60's/early 70"s. Keep doing what you o so well here please. Take care Pete.
G'day to you! Thank you ,I enjoyed this ,I have loved Travel Posters since I was a Child back in the 50s when I lived in the UK, the Colours and Design are Brilliant! Perth West Aust.
Another fantastic video pete. I only stumbled upon your channel this evening but i'm instantly hooked. You have a wonderfully informative presenting style & the artists & styles you highlight is right up my street. You have yourself a new subscriber sir.
Thanks for both your recent positive comments about channel content, and welcome aboard. Also thanks for the subscription - I need as many as I can get.
Beautiful post and wonderful narrative. Especially liked your last comments. Sometimes 'progress' ain't all it's cracked up to be. Travel posters are simply beautiful works of art and don't get enough attention or recognition. Even here,in little old New Zealand, we have quite a body of equally impressive work. Perhaps a series on this theme would be in order? I think it would attract a lot of positive reactions. Thanks once again Pete for a gorgeous episode!!
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. My apologies for the complete absence of examples from New Zealand (you're the second viewer from there with that complaint. I feel bad about it now but like other countries it simply didn't come up in any of my many searches.
Canada has a whole history of posters not just to promote tourism but also to encourage immigration. It would be nice to see a collection, or at least an overview, of some of these. Thx.
The Australian birds poster takes me back to when I was a schoolchild in Sydney and a member of the Gould League of Bird Lovers (promoted at our school and, I suppose most schools). I remember my little badge well. The League is still going and providing teaching material as The Gould League.
Many thanks for your comment. You might be interested to know I'm currently working on a long oiverdue wildlife illustration video - which is turning into something of an epic so it may well be a while before it gets completed. But I hope it'll be worth the effort when it is.
Thanks for your comment. I confess I had never seen those particular posters before and I strongly agree with your opinion of them. Everything a camera cannot do...
Wonderful as usual. Many of these posters remind me of the work of my late father in law, Willi Kriegl, who didn't illustrate any travel posters (as far as I know) but made many similarly stylized ads for such things as insurance and sun tan oil (featuring my wife to be at age three). Thanks again for this labor of love. Cheers from rather warm Vienna, Scott
Thanks for the appreciation once again. I had to search for a Willi Kriegl, but only found a rather impressive painter by the name of Willi Kriegel. I assume a different person.
This was just refreshing like a Rum Punch. I worked in a custom photo lab in the 80's and 90's, and along with a 4x5 copy stand would photograph my favorite art and poster books and make prints as large as 24"x36". Lots of Russian film and graphics from the 20's and 30's. We also had a mounting press, so I foamcored anything that went up on the walls. I still have boxes and boxes of these. If you're in the bay area and want to splash up your joint...
Thanks a lot for another favourable comment, and I must confess when I was teaching I had access to large format digital printing and took advantage of it more than once.
So much incredible work, I had to keep pausing. The posters really fire the imagination and make me want to visit far more than the photos do. Another bit of art and craftsmanship that "better" technology replaced, leaving something cold and far less interesting behind. I've wanted to get some of these for the house for years, but I can never choose and now I've just been exposed to dozens more that I've never seen!
Thanks a lot for your enthusiastic response to the video. You're right - we are spoiled for choice when it comes to good and cheap reprints of many of these posters. Lazy art direction and functional photography have a lot to answer for.
Wonderfully explained and collated video as always! I always know when my subscription light marks a new video from you, then I have something delicious to watch! This one was especially good because you show such a dynamic range of travel poster images. I have to say I find contemporary digitally made travel posters rather ubiquitous and soul-less at times. To go back to the original source and context is really inspiring! 😍
Thanks so much for your continuing appreciation of what I'm trying to do with the channel. Its a good feeling to know that viewers such as yourself feel the same way about these incredible images.
So funny. I looked up Hyeres, France, because of the poster-I recently discovered Remedios Varo, and something in it made me wonder if she had visited there during her time in France. I did the internet tour-it’s beautiful! Now I really want to go! And because you showed us an old poster! Pretty cool!😉✌️
Thanks a lot for your comment. And it must be conceded that France has far more than its fair share of really attractive places. You couldn't get me to visit Paris if you paid me (or most other modern cities for that matter) but the more rural areas are breathtaking.
"And even communist Russia produced images which traded on their imperial past, despite having earlier been responsible for ending it." No matter what the current ideology or Government is at the helm of affairs, they simply cannot whitewash away their heritage! This episode is so evocative of a bygone era of slow travel - I bet I would've pored over the posters with loved ones, while planning a trip to so and so place, with a childlike anticipation through the journey, just getting there! Thank you, Pete. Bet, at the end of the 21st century, new generations will be watching all your archived content of the arts.
Hello again and thanks again for another positive response to a video on the channel. It would be nice to think the videos will endure after I'm no longer around.
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"May not have been a better world back then, but it was undoubtedly a better looking one." So true.
Or ...in my view
it is
Exactly the OPPOSITE.
It was looking very simple and often not so polished,
but
...in essence
it was much better then
todays polished , and arteficially enhanced world.
Concrete and plastics, sillicons and fillers
on steroids.
Thanks a lot fir your agreement with my sentiment.
We have entered a period of descent into the lowest common denominator in terms of taste and quality. Once travel was sold to the discerning, with the arrival of package tours it is sold to all.
@@geoffreypiltz271 remember "Symphsons " episode ... when
Homer and Flanders visited Holy land ...in the middle Est...
Very nice portrayal of two extremes ...
Lol.
It was so funny to wastch when big dilema of Modenithy hits the screen.
What a great line : "may not have been a better world back then, but it was undoubtedly a better looking one". Exactly the point of those posters, to push the boundaries of your imagination.
Thanks, a lot.
Many thanks as usual for your appreciation - and particularly in this case my efforts with the use of language. It means a lot.
This was just SWELL! I'm a watercolorist and have done sets of posters myself. I will be forever drawn, pun intended, to these stylized works of art. Thank you for keeping them alive dear Sir.
Many thanks for your appreciation of this video, and I hope you'll continue to find content of interest on the channel.
These posters , and the periodicals ; impressed me to pursue Graphic Arts , as a teen in High School. I love these creations ... so beautiful. 🇺🇸
probably the most underrated works of art yet the most striking... i do agree with you that world used to look better, more beauty
Thanks for the appreciation. The dominance of generic photography in the media these days can never come close to the pleasure we used to get from illustrated images on the high street and elsewhere.
Over the weekend family stayed at a B&B in Texas... in the "parlor" there many issues of The Saturday Evening Post from the '50's and '60's ... I skipped over the written content just feasted my eyes on gorgeous travel and product ads!!
Thank you for this amazing collection of beautiful and iconic posters. Your videos are always a delight.
Many thanks for your appreciation of this video and my efforts with the content of the channel.
You said it quite well. The world was better looking back then. Thank you for this wonderful and nostalgic look at travel posters.
Thanks as always and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Great Survey and much appreciated. "Travel posters" are remarkably accessible and still evocative despite the internet. I especially appreciate the attribution, too!
Many thanks for your comment and appreciation.
You seriously don't understand how much I love your channel. Whenever I am depressed or have intense art block, I put on your videos while drinking coffee, which brightens my day. Lovely video as always. Thank you.
Many thanks for your appreciation. It really makes my day to know viewers such as yourself appreciate my efforts in making these videos.
Thank you for keeping this History of ART/Illustration! So eloquent you are!
Many thanks for your appreciation.
My favourite video of your channel! I'm a fan of these poster arts! Thank you very much!
Thanks a lot and Im very glad you appreciate this one. I must admit I think it's certainly one of my best efforts.
Always a pleasure to watch (and listen to!) your presentations.
Thanks a lot - greatly appreciated
Another gem, Pete. Thank you!..also for putting names to familiar images. I have always been gripped by illustrated travel posters and cards. Their graphic impact as house art is unbeatable. Monsieur Z (a Polish-French graphic artist) has designed many retro images for the Côte d'Azur resorts and I've even done some for my own town of Meerbusch.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. I was aware of the retro styled posters being currently produced but left them out as they aren;t functional, however attractive and convincing. I nearly included one by mistake.
I've barely started the video, but your music and image choices are wonderful. OK, going back to watch.
Thanks a lot for your dedication.
Another superb video essay from Pete Beard. This artist and historian of illustration is a good reason to return to TH-cam.
Many thanks for your kind words and appreciation of the content. Its good to know I'm getting through.
Thank you so much, I love the art in travel posters. The colorful and elaborate Art Nouveau advertisements of the late 1890s, early 1900s are my favorite.💕
Many thanks for your appreciation of this video. And if you'll pardon my shameless plug for the channel I hope you'll find more to enjoy. There are certainly a lot of illustrators featured from that period.
@@petebeard I subscribed to your channel, and hope to see more. Thank you for your reply. Hello from South Florida USA.👋💕🌺
One of the first things I did with the advent of the internet, was to create slideshows of these posters for my very expensive color monitors, between work sessions. Thanks to Pete, I can now name some of the real heroes--the illustrators.
Many thanks as always for your appreciation and comments, and for urging others to subscribe. There's been a small surge in numbers of late and if this keeps up I might make that 100,000 before I kick the bucket.
What a beautiful presentation. Thank you!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for telling me so.
Deeeeeelightful, thanks so much! Janusz Grabianski is my favourite among many fave illustrators. His fairy tale pictures made my childhood, & his ads are genius!
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. Grabianski features in several of the videos I've made and I really like his work. In fact he is on my current "to do" list with many others, so although I can promise he will have his own video I have no idea when. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
@@petebeard How delightful!
Bravo 👏
- the aesthetic illumination of ideas is making a comeback in the form of Steelbox Movie covers …
… and I’ll never forget the day my niece told me about the reemergence of Vinyl Records.
😊 I believe in the power of Image to go beyond the picture.
Thanks for the comment, and tell your neice that before too long I should finish my history of illustrated record covers.
Even as I started to memorize the names of the artists I liked, I knew deep down that my memory was not up to the task. I blame you, Pete, for too much of a good thing. God, it sort of reminds me of those posters that Lautrec made for nightclubs, that were glued randomly to walls, only to disappear from the elements or someone just tearing them down. All those beautiful images, so ephemeral. Thanks again, Pete.
Many thanks for your flattering comment. You can always go back and freeze frames to get the names of those you'd like to hunt down. And you hit the nail on the head about the ephemeral nature of such images, as opposed to those hanging on the walls of museums and galleries. It's the curse of illustration.
There's something so true about your comments at the end about how nowadays we can do virtual tours of any place on the planet and while that has been a great tool to avoid any nasty surprises, it doesn't capture the imagination as these old posters did since now your expectations are grounded 100% in reality detracting from the sense of discovery when traveling.
"It may not have been a better world back then, but it was undoubtedly a better-looking one"
Amazing video, cheers.
Thanks as always for your appreciation of the content of this video and my efforts in presenting it to the best of my abilities. Such comments always make my day,
Makes me look at North Wales, the Lakes and the Dales with a sunny disposition...cheers Pete...keep well...E.
Ah yes, those rail posters really were immensely evocative. I remember when lovely steam trains had carriages and above the luggage rack there were always great little posters of destinations.
This was a treat for me, as Travel Posters are one of my favourite forms of art work. I didn't know why this was until you said that they " capture the imagination", and I think that is their secret. Thanks for another great episode Pete.
Thanks as usual for your appreciation, and I genuinely resent the dominance of mundane photography that defines the current age.
Point well made about the dominance of posters over photographs. Good job Pete!
Thanks a lot as usual for your comment.
Such a beautiful presentation, thank you Mr. Beard. The music and narration are so tasteful and intelligent.
That's a very nice thing to say, and I'm delighted you think so.
We have always loved the genre of travel-posters and we enjoyed them whenever you presented them in your 'unsung heroes' series. Lovely to see them collected like this in your video!
Hello again and thanks a lot as usual for your appreciation of this video, and others too.
I loved this travel posters video, which touch on so many themes. Would be nice to see a train and zoo theme as well.
Thanks, and they are good suggestions for future videos. I'll add them to the very long list of possibles.
The quality of work that has gone into these videos really makes this channel such a criminally underrated one. Thank you for your work Pete!
I wonder, would you consider making a video giving us some insight into your research and narrative process? You make building the narrative look so easy and I would really enjoy better understand how you approach something like this.
Many thanks for your appreciation of this video and my contribution to the channel in general. You aren;t the first to suggest such a video - but on the other hand it hasn't been exactly a torrent of requests. If I'm honest I struggle to see how such a video would be of interest to the majority of my viewers. But I never rule anyting out and i may well warm to the idea somewhere down the line. But in the meantime, there's no big secret about it. Once I decide on a subject I attack the internet with searches and dig until I find some approximation of what I need. Mostly I rely on there being enough pictures (usually at least 150) and construct a narrative around that, based on the years the images were created.
Your channel was recommended by someone that I follow, on utube. Was a great move on his part. I wouldn't have known of you, without him. Big shout out for That Opal Guy, please. Greetings from the Little Desert area, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺. 😊
Thanks a lot for your appreciation, and I rely on word of mouth to grow the channel so Im grateful to That Opal guy and others for doing so.
When I worked at Disney Studios I hung posters from Ludwig Hohlwein in my office.
Wonderful video. These posters captured the creative imagination of travel back then.
Many thanks for your comment and appreciation. Nice to hear from a fellow Hohwein admirer. If you weren't aware of it there is a video decicated to him exclusively on the channel. (shameless plug on my part)
I liked the weird and saturated colors used in many of the landscapes. Thanks for another very inspiring video, Pete.
Thanks for your comment as ever. And yes - so much better than reality.
This video is absolutely wonderful! Thank you for sharing. Your whole channel is fantastic
Many thanks for your appreciation of this and other videos on the channel.
Trying to be the first, but this channel is on fire! Another great video, Mr Beard. THANKS from all of us.
Thanks for the heads up on this. Brilliant. I subbed.😊
Thanks a lot. Not sure about "on fire" but certainly warmer than it has been, I'm pleased to see.
Thanks very much for the subscription.
@petebeard Delighted to have been introduced to you. That Opal Guy is a legend. Has very diverse interests. He's the guilty party! 😊
Very inspiring, I'm an artist in the tiki scene(mostly wood carving), growing up in the 70/80s in a cold place I always dreamed of far flung exotic locations, especially Polynesia. The original King Kong and later Godzilla movies like Mothra added to my fascination. Thanks for the video.
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. Unlike yours, my own life is far from exotic or exciting. But that's down to my temperament.
I hope that author is familiar with the book "Come to norden" which accompanied an exhibition of travel posters advertising scandinavian coutries in Nordic Museum in Stockholm a couple of years ago. I visited it and was impressed. Thank you for covering this topic, great presentation as always!
Thanks for the comment. I'm sorry to say that Scandinavia was poorly represented in my various searches.
@@petebeard That's not a problem at all, I just thought that I might turn Your attention to this book as it is a good resource and excellent addition to exhibition I was lucky to visit while in Stockholm. Thanks again for the video!
The love of beauty for its own sake is one of the four pillars driving human life. Thanks Pete, for another deep dive; and nobody would mind if you did a sequence along the same lines.
Thanks a lot for the comment, and maybe I will return, but there are just so many others to make first...
A plethora of styles and destinations, so many of them an inspiration to pack the bags and hurry off to any or all of these exciting places. Alas, the internet has killed off this particular market. But no virtual tour can give the impression of a place that some artists have imbued with enchantment, phantasy and style. Life may not have been better, but it was less uniform. Thank you for an entertaining and interesting trip
Hello again and many thanks for another favourable response. "Plethora" - what a great word and I wish I had used it somewhere in the video now. Don't be surprised if I hijack it somewhwer down the line.
Thanks for sharing the history of commercial art. It is underappreciated but, as your channel demonstrates, a vibrant and creative art.
Thanks for your appreciation, and if I can do anything to increase awareness of these largely forgotten talents then I feel I'm doing something worthwhile
Top shelf, Pete! My illustration business today is completely informed by the golden age of the travel poster, especially the vibrant posterised style. This video had me ooo-ing and ahh-ing the whole way. Wonderful commentary and sign off too!
Many thanks for your enthusiastic response to the content of this video. Always good to know I've made one that's well liked.
When I finished watching this video, it was just like I came out of a University lecture by professor Peter Beard. Large images on the wall with the lights, turning low, and Professor Beard, giving the narrative and explaining the history of the selections shown. And towards the end, I heard a sound in his voice of love for such great works of art. Frank
Many thanks for your kind words about my efforts to make the channel as interesting as I could. Funnily enough (or maybe not) it was delivering lectures similar to these videos using the big screen when I was teaching that got me thinking about putting all this stuff out into the world. Now the audience is considerably bigger I'm pleased to say.
I totally agree, Frank !
The photographic posters "UNIFIED BY BOTH THEIR LACK OF IMAGINATION AND CHARACTER" precisely describes all holiday advertising since the invention of the camera. Thanks for that little gem, Pete. I am going to print and frame that for my studio!
...and thanks for this comment too.
Love your last comment. Wonderful exploration of this genre.
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of my efforts with this video, as always.
Some amazing and beautiful artwork created to sell traveling. So many of these are still very evocative even now. Great overview of Travel Poster history!
Thanks as always for your continuing appreciation I'm glad you enjoyed the content.
👍Thank you!🇬🇧🇵🇹
Haven't seen the previous video yet. I'm going to watch them both now. Best way to start the week!
Keep watching, my friend!
What a treasure...a stunning array of beauty...loved this...thank you so much...what a joy!!!!
Thanks a lot for your comment and I'm delighted you apopreciated the images on show here. Sad there will be no more like them.
You never fail to impress and educate me to my betterment. Thank You!
That's a nice thing to say, so thanks a lot.
Reminds me of the exotic and stylish art labels that used to adorn fruit and produce crates
Yes! Wine labels as well! Stamps are bewildering effective even being so tiny!
Thanks a lot for the comment.
It's incredible seeing the posters evolve. I'm sure the methods to produce the posters went through changes too, but their ability to reproduce full color posters for the last100 years shows how they mastered the printing process well before then. Making full color images for books, in a smaller format must have been difficult early on. I think the color on all of the posters is exceptional. Thanks for another excellent exhibit.
Many thanks again for your appreciation. I must admit that I was very surprised to see just how long traditional stone lithography endured as the method for printing many of these posters. Then I found out it reproduced much cleaner than 4 colour offset as there were no dot screens involved.
A beautiful and inspiring form of art. I’m sure any of the featured artists would deserve their own dedicated episode. Well done once again.
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.
Indeed, it was a better looking world. Thank you for bringing your eye for style to us in such a pleasant way and wonderful break in the day.
Many thanks for your comment and appreciation.
Thanks for all you do Pete ~ ! This is a fertile subject can't wait to watch!
Thanks and I hope you were not disappointed.
All my favorite artists in one place. Nice compilation and thanks for this breath of fresh air!
You are more than welcome, and thanks for your appreciation.
Simply beautiful curation of a great graphic category that does not exist anymore, unfortunately. Thank you for this great overview.
I'm glad you enjoyed this video - it was a difficult one to put together and took far longer than the solo spots. Worth it in the end, I like to think.
@@petebeard All the effort was totally worth it!
The amount of great art that you pull together for these videos is immensely appreciated. Ive got so many more people to look into further now. I particularly loved the stuff by Julien Lacaze. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for your comment, and I'm pleased you enjoyed the content.
Thank you for this video. As a art student in my youth and forever a big fan of good graphic design you showed works I’d never seen before.
Many thanks for your comment and appreciation. Quite a few of those I showed I had never seen before. Jean Dessirier was a revelation.
What a wonderful Portfolio of true visual snapshots of the periods. Thanks you Mr. Beard for the evening Eye-Candy
Thanks a lot and it's my pleasure, particularly when viewers such as yourself make positive comments.
Positively wonderful & love the Tom Purvis opener/main image. Thank you as always!
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. I ws spoiled for choice when it came to a title page but it had to be that one in the end. It said exactly what I wanted to.
A superb overview, Pete. Thank you! The video could have been twice as long and you still would have a wealth of illustrations to choose from and it would have been just as mesmerizing. A better-looking world indeed.
Many thanks for your appreciation. And I would make this - and other - videos longer, but somewhat depressingly average view time is less than half of the video's length. If all my viewers were as keen as you it would be a different story.
Thanks for this video, Pete. I have long been an admirer of travel posters, especially those relating to the railways. Though I have to say the last time I was in Harrogate it was not as warm and sunny as that poster depicted. We had gone there for the Christmas Fair and it was cold, windy and the rain was coming down in stair rods. Some kind shop owner had given me my purchased items in a paper bag. About 20 minutes later it gave up the unequal struggle in the rain and fell apart. By that time I was so wet I knew how it felt.
Thanks a lot for your comment, appreciation and little jaunt down memory lane.
Such a wondeful set of travel posters, thank you! Loved your clever comments and beautiful voice. Bravo!
Many thanks for your particularly flattering comments about this video and my cntribution to it.
This was fascinating and a treat for the eyes. Thank you for sharing this great art and your knowledge! These videos help me wind down at night so well
Many thanks for your appreciation, and I'm pleased you enjoy the channel content.
Another great video. It's fascinating to see the evolution of this style. Each of the artists style influencing the next.
Thanks for the appreciation, and Im glad that my intention to create an evolutionary thread wasn't wasted.
Waited most of my life to see this subject. Thank you very, very much.
Thanks a lot fir your appreciation. I'm glad you enjoyed the content.
Beautiful illustrated posters of the past
Thanks for the comment and I'm pleased you found the images a delight for the eye.
I think this my favourite episode yet.
Thanks a lot. It does seem to be quite popular with viewers, I'm pleased to say.
Breathtaking and although nostalgic, quite the celebration of art. Thank you!
Thanks fr your comment - greatly appreciated.
Hi Pete, you have outdone yourself.
Simply spectacular right down to the choice of music and the tempo and "vibe".
The poster is my favorite form of art. and your choices are all in my selection of favorites.
When I became hooked on art in junior high and high school, 6 plus decades ago, I concentrated on posters.
This video has gone to the top of my list of your presentations.
Thanks so much.
Now onto coasters !!
Hello again and thanks a lot for your appreciation once more. I must confess I was very pleased with this video once completed. I nearly gave up on it a few times as the research drove me nuts, compared to a simple more biographical piece. But I'm glad I didn't give up.
That was wonderful! I love the graphic style of so many of these artists and posters many of whom I had never seen I have started screen printing later in life and hope to be able to work in this style. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the comment and I'm glad you appreciated the work of the illustrators featured in the video. I would imagine that silkscreen would be ideal to create similar images to quite a few of those included.
What a wonderful compilation of really beautiful posters! Thank you!
I'm very glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks for commenting.
Pete!
OMG! Posters! Bring 'em back!! This was wonderful! Tnx!
Yes- bring them back and make this wretched illustration-deprived world a nicer place to be. Thanks as always.
Just wonderful. I must confess; I buy cat-themed calendars and plan to frame the pictures in frames to decorate my home. I got "Cats in Masterpieces", "Cats in Film" and "Cats in Dickensian Clothing". OK, so they are digital, but they sure are witty and attractive.
Thanks for the comment, and as a cat person myself I more than understand your fixation.
Fantastic video. Thank you for this.
You are most welcome, and thanks for your appreciation.
Collectors, collect! I’m currently residing in Mexico and will definitely keep an eye out for vintage posters about Acapulco and the like. Some of the old Latin American illustrated movies posters and magazine covers you see at fleas markets here are marvelous. Thank you. ✨
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of this video.
Undoubtedly Pete.
Thanks for this.
Some of these are breathtaking. The rest are so visually alluring that they certainly served their eye-catching advertising purpose. I'll have to try to find the one with my home town of Cleveland. I remember the Quantas posters, that happy sea-turtle brought me right back to the late 60's/early 70"s.
Keep doing what you o so well here please.
Take care Pete.
Thanks as ever for your appreciation and comments. I really liked that Quantas campaign too, and had never heard of Harry Rogers.
G'day to you! Thank you ,I enjoyed this ,I have loved Travel Posters since I was a Child back in the 50s when I lived in the UK, the Colours and Design are Brilliant! Perth West Aust.
Many thanks for your comment and appreciation. Both are very welcome.
Another fantastic video pete. I only stumbled upon your channel this evening but i'm instantly hooked. You have a wonderfully informative presenting style & the artists & styles you highlight is right up my street. You have yourself a new subscriber sir.
Thanks for both your recent positive comments about channel content, and welcome aboard. Also thanks for the subscription - I need as many as I can get.
Beautiful post and wonderful narrative. Especially liked your last comments. Sometimes 'progress' ain't all it's cracked up to be. Travel posters are simply beautiful works of art and don't get enough attention or recognition. Even here,in little old New Zealand, we have quite a body of equally impressive work.
Perhaps a series on this theme would be in order? I think it would attract a lot of positive reactions. Thanks once again Pete for a gorgeous episode!!
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. My apologies for the complete absence of examples from New Zealand (you're the second viewer from there with that complaint. I feel bad about it now but like other countries it simply didn't come up in any of my many searches.
Canada has a whole history of posters not just to promote tourism but also to encourage immigration. It would be nice to see a collection, or at least an overview, of some of these. Thx.
Like other countries, I'm afraid Canada didnt come up in any of my searches.
Really? I'm surprised. I just ask Mr. Googly:
travel tourism poster art "canada"
and I get tons of examples.
The Australian birds poster takes me back to when I was a schoolchild in Sydney and a member of the Gould League of Bird Lovers (promoted at our school and, I suppose most schools). I remember my little badge well. The League is still going and providing teaching material as The Gould League.
Many thanks for your comment. You might be interested to know I'm currently working on a long oiverdue wildlife illustration video - which is turning into something of an epic so it may well be a while before it gets completed. But I hope it'll be worth the effort when it is.
All of these are amazing! The Air Afrique posters are beautiful!
Thanks for your comment. I confess I had never seen those particular posters before and I strongly agree with your opinion of them. Everything a camera cannot do...
Another engrossing presentation - Thank you Pete.
Im glad you enjoyed it - thanks a lot.
Classy production, old chap. This was extraordinary. So well done I subscribed. Cheers.
Many thanks for your favourable opinion of my efforts with this video.
Wonderful as usual. Many of these posters remind me of the work of my late father in law, Willi Kriegl, who didn't illustrate any travel posters (as far as I know) but made many similarly stylized ads for such things as insurance and sun tan oil (featuring my wife to be at age three).
Thanks again for this labor of love. Cheers from rather warm Vienna, Scott
Thanks for the appreciation once again. I had to search for a Willi Kriegl, but only found a rather impressive painter by the name of Willi Kriegel. I assume a different person.
@@petebeard Yes, that's a different Willi. As far as I know, my father in law has no online presence.
I remember seeing some of them (especially TWA) when we'd go to the airport to pick up relatives. This was back in the 60s when I was way little.
Thanks for the comment and appreciation as usual. A lot of the American stuff was new to me I must admit.
Hugely enjoyed this video. Much food for thought about the different visual strategies. Thanks!!!
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.
This was just refreshing like a Rum Punch. I worked in a custom photo lab in the 80's and 90's, and along with a 4x5 copy stand would photograph my favorite art and poster books and make prints as large as 24"x36". Lots of Russian film and graphics from the 20's and 30's. We also had a mounting press, so I foamcored anything that went up on the walls. I still have boxes and boxes of these. If you're in the bay area and want to splash up your joint...
Thanks a lot for another favourable comment, and I must confess when I was teaching I had access to large format digital printing and took advantage of it more than once.
You . paint beautifully. With words!
What a nice thing to say. Much appreciated.
So much incredible work, I had to keep pausing. The posters really fire the imagination and make me want to visit far more than the photos do. Another bit of art and craftsmanship that "better" technology replaced, leaving something cold and far less interesting behind. I've wanted to get some of these for the house for years, but I can never choose and now I've just been exposed to dozens more that I've never seen!
Thanks a lot for your enthusiastic response to the video. You're right - we are spoiled for choice when it comes to good and cheap reprints of many of these posters. Lazy art direction and functional photography have a lot to answer for.
I've always liked posters of all sorts ... Thank You *Pete* always interesting content
Thanks agin for the stars and the appreciation. Always a pleasure to know the content is enjoyed.
Well done. Thank you.
Thanks a lot.
Better looking indeed! Brilliant! Thank you…..
Thanks a lot for your favourable response to the video.
Fantastic video, Pete.
Thanks a lot. Glad you liked it.
It’s amazing how loaded the word “better” has become.
Wonderfully explained and collated video as always! I always know when my subscription light marks a new video from you, then I have something delicious to watch! This one was especially good because you show such a dynamic range of travel poster images. I have to say I find contemporary digitally made travel posters rather ubiquitous and soul-less at times. To go back to the original source and context is really inspiring! 😍
Thanks so much for your continuing appreciation of what I'm trying to do with the channel. Its a good feeling to know that viewers such as yourself feel the same way about these incredible images.
@@petebeard It is an amazing body of work you have made with all these videos! I raise my hat 😍🌞
So funny. I looked up Hyeres, France, because of the poster-I recently discovered Remedios Varo, and something in it made me wonder if she had visited there during her time in France. I did the internet tour-it’s beautiful! Now I really want to go!
And because you showed us an old poster! Pretty cool!😉✌️
Thanks a lot for your comment. And it must be conceded that France has far more than its fair share of really attractive places. You couldn't get me to visit Paris if you paid me (or most other modern cities for that matter) but the more rural areas are breathtaking.
@@petebeard Agreed, though I would like to see the Louvre! Maybe a two day stay nearby, then on to the country!
"And even communist Russia produced images which traded on their imperial past, despite having earlier been responsible for ending it."
No matter what the current ideology or Government is at the helm of affairs, they simply cannot whitewash away their heritage!
This episode is so evocative of a bygone era of slow travel - I bet I would've pored over the posters with loved ones, while planning a trip to so and so place, with a childlike anticipation through the journey, just getting there!
Thank you, Pete.
Bet, at the end of the 21st century, new generations will be watching all your archived content of the arts.
Hello again and thanks again for another positive response to a video on the channel. It would be nice to think the videos will endure after I'm no longer around.
Once again, thank you for your wonderful work!
Thanks very much for your ongoing appreciation. It's very welcome.
A terrific episode! Perhaps even terrificker than usual!
Thanks a lot, and I hope to keep up a decent standard with others in the pipeline.
Thank you Mr B……wonderful stuff !!
Im pleased you enjoyed it and thanks for the comment.