THE ILLUSTRATED POSTERS OF GINO BOCCASILE HD 1080p
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- Gino Boccasile was undoubtedly one of Italy's most popular and successful creator of illustrated posters of the 20th century. His images were displayed on walls throughout the country advertising all manner of products, events and services, and although his career was relatively short he was remarkably prolific. Sadly his reputation is now somewhat tarnished due to his association with the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, and the virulent hysterical propaganda he produced during the Second World War.
I love the way you handled this. Your focus remained on the artwork, but you didn't leave out or excuse his fascist propaganda and history with the movement. You covered it all in a very classy way, keeping the art at the forefront, even though I imagine that was a difficult rope to walk at times while making this video. You did a nice job with that, Pete.
Gino's stylized female forms are intriguing to look at, as there is an obvious idealization of the female form on display in most of the advertisement work. These ad images are very relatable--very human and playful, and they seem to celebrate the joys of life. It's sad that his wartime work seems to do just the opposite. It's difficult to believe that the same artist also supported racist, fascist idealology. If you only saw his more upbeat advertising work, you'd get none of that vibe. Gino was a powerful advertising artist, nonetheless, and I am glad to learn about him and his work. Thank you for always enlightening us, Pete.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation and cimments about this video. It's hard to reconcile his propaganda with the other work.
Such a contradiction between his disgusting wartime work and the optimistic, sweet and carefree tones of his commercial work. His diagonal compositions are really in a class of its own. Thanks again for your choice and well chosen wording.
Hello and thanks for both your comments about this video and Boccasile's work. It's a strange feeling to find the content repulsive but simultaneously admire the technique.
Gino Boccasile was quite talented. Many illustrators of that time produced propaganda work, but Boccasile's involvement with the fascist movement made him more than just an artist who merely wanted avoid arrest, or be forced to flee the area. He was a willing participant. I find it sad that politics often poisons the arts. That being said, you have shown the spotlight on a talented illustrator, and given us a valuable history lesson.
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.
Irrespective of his politics, his talent was immense. Thanks for showcasing this interesting illustrator Pete.
Incredibly talented. I really enjoy these videos.
Thanks a lot
Your appreciation is always welcome, so thanks.
I’m speechless, no textless. Great video. Thank you.
me too! Wow!
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Interesting to see how devoted he was to his craft. The quality and self improvement of his work is obvious.
I can just imagine how influential his posters were during those days.
As a child or teen to see these advertisements must have been a strong influence.
Thanks for another eye opening look at another illustrator I've not heard of.
Rganks a lot for your comment and appreciation.
Another great one, Pete. One of the many features I love about these historical videos, is the propaganda pieces. I've always believed that the power of great illustration is to tell a story, whether it be to highlight a mood of some text or convince the viewer-or tell the story- of the quality of the product or, in the case of propaganda, a person or movement. As odious as Boccasule's posters of Mussolini and the facist movement and the racist anti-American images were, they were powerful and well crafted. Curious how well they worked, if they actually changed minds. It'd be an interesting study, which propaganda images worked the best during each war, which, to use modern lexicon, "went viral" and influced the greatest amount of people-on both sides. You're making me think, Pete, on this dark Saturday night. I need a good cuppa or maybe something a bit stronger now ;-). As always, thanks for the education. Cheers!
Hi Doug, and thanks for your comment and observations as ever. It is a strange feeling to deplore the content but admire the talent at the same time. I don't know if you have already seen them but allow me to shamelessly plug my videos on the propaganda of ww1 and ww2. How are things in France with regard to the farmers blockade? I assume where you are isn't badly affected.
Cant deny the quality of the work because of his politics .
Thanks for the comment,with which I'm in total agreement.
Another fascinating biography of an artist I had not heard of. Thanks!
Thanks a lot for your comment.
I searched your channel and was surprised to find no mention of Edith Holden. She was a children's book illustrator from England. Perhaps you are preparing a dedicated program about her in the near future (hint, hint, nudge, nudge).
Rest assured she is on my list and has been for some time. There is only enough material for an inclusion in the unsung heroes series but she will put in an appearance at some point. It's a very long queue.
Okay, thx.
Despite his politics, Boccasile is a pleasant discovery I was unaware of before this. Thanks.
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(17) Oh, wow. In a way, at least he was able to stand up again after his political fall from grace. I'm glad he decided to persevere; look at the beautiful art work he produced after his previous gaffe to use his art as a weapon instead of a thing of beauty to wonder at.
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His lettering and composition are astonishing. Beautiful commercial artist and illustrator. Thanks for presenting this wonderful artist who alas was a product of his time producing war propaganda and hateful images.
Thank you!🇬🇧🇵🇹 (His work is consistently good but that last one ...👍)
Thanks again and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I'm so glad I found your channel! I think you handled Boccasile's *varied* career very well. It's important to remember that art can be used for evil, and that people are complicated. I love that your videos look at both technique and context!
Many thanks for your appreciation of my work on the channel. It's most welcome.
Art used for evil? Absolutely! Look at the work of English and American illustrators during WW2. The disgusting world we live in is the result of the victory of the "good guys" in 1945.
Nicely handled, a tricky one to present. With great talent comes great responsibility.
Thanks for your comment as usual.
Спасибо as always, Pete! To me, he's more of a graphic designer than of an illustrater. Very talented and probably ahead of his time.
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*'Cheerful humanity'* perfect way to phrase it *Pete* & Thank You this was lovely
marvelous artist! I've never heard of him before. Remarkable technique and imagination!
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of his work.
Good for you, Mr. Beard. It's a pleasure to see a presentation from someone with the courage to be reasonable. And the art was wonderful. As usual.
Many thanks for your appreciation. I must admit I was expecting some deranged responses for my 'promotion' of fascism. None as yet.
Thank you Mr Beard. I must say that Boccasile is an interesting choice as a subject for a video. Not the first name that comes to mind among Italian poster artists. Other figures like Marcello Dudovich, Leopoldo Metlicovitz and Leonetto Cappiello are usually more popular.
Perhaps, and thankfully, that's why the series is called 'Unsung' Heroes of Illustration ?
Thanks for the comment. It's not an either/or situation for me and Dudovich will be featuring before long. The other Ricordi guys are all waiting in the wings too but no idea when they will appear, or if I'll actually live that long
@@petebeard looking forward to it! Thanks!
@@tonygohagan2766 or perhaps not. This wasn't an unsung hero at all because he was pretty famous and because the video is not part of the Unsung Heroes series.
@@tppnr You are right. Thanks for putting me straight.
I stand correct and apologise for my ignorance and conceit. I hope you'll forgive me?
Very interesting video, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
A nice splash of colour on a grey day on the wet Wirral, another great offering, cheers Pete..😊😊.E
Hello and thanks as ever. I'm waiting for the weather to improve somewhat before I visit Chester/Lady lever. It could be a long wait...
@@petebeard...bring a brolly...😅😅😅
I knew nothing about this illustrator. A good reminder that remarkably talented people can put their talents to use for good or ill.
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This is one of your best, and I've watched them all.
I'm glad you think so and thanks a lot for your dedication to the cause.
Замечательный выбор, спасибо
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Thanks again Pete Beard for the awesome content!
You are very welcome.
Magnificent channel. Thanks you for educating us.
Would have been justice to see old Gino break a few rocks in the hot sun and for him to then preserve the images for our approval 😃
Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation.
As always, many thanks for your time and energies given to your wonderfully valuable project, Pete. Cheers from the colonies. 😊
...amd thanks as ever for your appreciation.
Really love this series of Illustrators that you produce. These should be on TV. Maybe something like PBS in America and something similiar in the UK. Food for thought.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. It would be good to be on a TV channel but I'm not overwhelmed with offers.
I love this channel so much!!
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. It's always a real pleasure to get such positive responses from viewers.
Another great narrative about illustration and how it gets mingled into history! Love it! Tnx!
Thanks as usual for your appreciation. Not the easiest of subjects to try to be impartial about.
Wow his work is brilliant. Regardless of his subject matters ( his war time period).
I love your channel thank you for these videos. Eagerly awaiting your next upload.
Many thanks for your appreciation, and there are plenty more in the pipeline.
I'm sorry that I keep writing the same thing here: I loved it. 💛
Don't apologise - it never gets old.
another inciteful video. Thanks, sir.
it incited me to smash like!
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Quite the life of this artist, curiously enough I have seen his samurai poster sometimes on the net and removed from the context one has to admit that he had a great skill at making impactful images.
It is a strange feeling to simultaneously deplore the content of any picture and yet admire the creativity and skill that went into making it.
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*Gino's* work had *movement* in it ... not static & that stands out
Fascinating: I don't see much 'axis' Propaganda - thanks for bringing these to light, Pete - I look forward to more, should you choose/find any more to be shown.
Hello again and thanks for the comment. And if you want more of a similar kind allow me to plug my video 'Propaganda in WW2'. There's one about the first conflict too.
@@petebeardGood Day to you.
Thanks! I will watch it.
Imagine what we, as a species, could accomplish without religion, politics and greed.
Thanks a lot for your comments and appreciation. Both are welcome.
A fascinating artist. It's a shame he tarnished his reputation so.
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One can almost feel the soft skin and fabric what a shame he was misled , we all get caught up with the ideology around us. Perhaps today's is " Make _insert country of origin_Great Again!"
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so interesting seeing his propaganda posters. we are so use to seeing the winning side's posters that sometimes we forget that all sides in the war had propaganda. we shouldn't ignore it, but we also should glorify it, certainly worth studying tho
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I really liked this series!
Thanks a lot for the appreciation again.
I find it sad that his incredible talent as an illustrator is stained by his propaganda work in WW2, especially post 1943 when many Italians were fighting back against Mussolini and nazi-Germany. Even in those illustrations despicable in terms of content, the craft and ability to effectively deliver the intended message was remarkable.
It's a strange feeling to both deplore the content and yet admire the creativity and skill that went into making any picture.
This is a conundrum. But even if he had been of any other political persuasion, his output would have given pause for thought. Admittedly a flight of imagination, yet it does look as if there had been an almost drooling enthusiasm for evisceration and a delight in inflicting pain that is more than disturbing. Hieronymus Bosch depicted gruesome scenes, but not on a comparable level. Rightly or wrongly, I judge the man, not the art. In this particular case there is something menacing that I cannot ignore. But only because you highlighted his “normal” work next to his “hysterical”(?). If none of the frenzied propaganda work had been included, I would not have felt compelled to condemn. As I said, conundrum. Thank you, this was educational.
Thanks a lot for your comment and observations about Boccasile's work, and in particular his propaganda. As I think I said in the video (and if I didn't I should have)many italian illustrators sepoused the fascist cause once Mussolini had gained control, some more reluctantly than others. But in his case the rabid levels of hostility and horror film violence can't be put down to towing a party line. It's that he was so quickly forgiven after the war that amazes me.
I have many of his original posters. He's my favorite vintage poster artist, though I'm not a fan of his propaganda phase.
Thanks a lot for your comment. It's a weird thing to find the message repulsive but the skill fascinating.
The two sides of an artist whether writer, artist, actor et cetera, is an ongoing highly interesting conversation starter ... how to separate the artist from the inner person. For example, the writer of: *The Mists of Avalon* & the highly interesting writer: *Sherman Alexie* who ruined their careers through & estate through what they appeared to condone & through bad behavior ...sad really what people do to themselves. Which does speak volumes about their inner core
Many thanks for all your comments, stars and observations regarding this video. It's a strange feeling to find the nature of images (and yes books too) deplorable and yet still admire the skill that went into them. I had expected some disapproval for even featuring the man's unpleasant associations and work but so far so good in that regard.
Great work Pete, thanks! I'd never really understood the word 'triggered' until I saw those propagandist works, but boy did they set off in me a really angry response. That anyone could see the British and Americans in such a light was a vivid illustration of the power of such works. He must have poisoned the minds of a couple of whole generations of Italians and others.
Thanks a lot for your comment. It's hard to see how anyone could have taken them seriously at the time. For once it's unequivocal that we were actually the good guys.
Both the British and the Americans committed war crimes, which are conveniently left out of most textbooks. My town for example was bombed by the Americans... they killed lots of innocent civilians and never apologized for their actions. Most of the world population sees the USA in a bad light because it's by far the most warlike country. If this makes you angry, you're part of the problem.
The losing side is always demonized by the winners . . .
But in this case rightly so. Study a bit of actual history before making such statements.
Fascist painters. No thanks. But interesting from a historical point of view. Thanks, Pete, great content as always ❤
Thanks fir your appreciation.
Excellent art history lesson once again. This artist’s racist (white supremacist) period should never be forgotten. Thanks
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I guess it is necessary to divorce our revulsion at his fascist nature from artistic appreciation of his beautiful works. Don't we do the same for Richard Wagner, whose anti-semitism was notorious? I do have this comment on his work. You correctly note how his early work differed from his more mature later style. However, doesn't it seem that his professional work became repetitive and almost cliched as he progressed through life. Most of the artists that I admire showed continuous growth and innovation throughout their career. His works are beautiful but somehow unfulfilling. Thanks for another wonderful discussion.
Thanks a lot for your comment and observations. I'm inclined to agree with you about him stagnating somewhat. But I think he redeemed himself in more ways than one with the Decameron.
Boccasile’s fascism seems intrude on all his images. Once you learn of his politics, it’s hard not to see even his housewives as Mussolini’s servants.
Thanks for the comment, although I can't help but think it's a bit extreme to lay it on the housewives. After all, for better or worse that's a staple of all advertising in non-fascist countries too.
Its really scary when skilled artists like this are used and hired for making propaganda images. I really loved the ones at 10:13 and 13:53
Thanks for the comment. It;s even more scary when the artist in question volunteers his services for such a cause.
@@petebeard You're welcome
we tend to forget that all of the countries in the second world war had propaganda posters, tend to focus on what the winning side produced. def shouldn't glorify propaganda on any side/country, but its all worth studying (ooh idea for a Phd....)
Hello and thanks for both comments about this video. It sounds like you aren't aware that there are two videos on the channel devoted to wartime propagands - one for WW1 and a second for WW2. I know it's a shameless plug on my part but you might find them of interest
I wasnt aware!! I will have to go look for them 😀 I wrote my final art Graphic Design Communication dissertation on British WW2 propaganda so its a topic I find really interesting and close to my heart
Not disturbed that I just didnt like his style, even in the early days. skilled but glib...
for equal time you could do the propaganda and racist images of WW2 from the Allied side. There's plenty. Life is complicated and so is history.
Actually I have done them. Propaganda of WW1 and WW2 are on the channel but you obviously missed them. I'd be interested to know who created racist imagery for the allies, though.
@@petebeard not sure but there are many crude japanese ones, buck toothed and slits for eyes. Germans were caveman types. Personally not offended, war does that. A bloody decapitated Trump head made most of the mainstream sites .