The average moviegoer probably doesn’t know the name Drew Struzan, but they’ve seen the art he created. An illustrator who trained at the ArtCenter College of Design, Struzan spent 40 years creating some of the most iconic posters in the history of cinema, images inextricable with the cultural legacies of the films they represented. In our modern age where posters are often a matter of slapping a collage of photoshopped floating heads atop a generic backdrop, a talent like Struzan’s is even more dearly missed.
As an artist, Struzan used an airbrushed one-sheet technique, that gave his work a lush palette and tactile realism, as well as a shining glow that’s instantly recognizable. It conveyed a sense of nostalgia, or adventure, that proved warmly inviting and distinctly timeless. And he was famous for creating his work at a very quick pace: He designed the chilling image for…
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