Leonetto Cappiello — Sancta Liquor | Art Nouveau Poster Print

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Leonetto Cappiello — Sancta Liquor | Art Nouveau Poster PrintLeonetto Cappiello (18751942) was an Italian born poster artist based in Paris who became the most influential advertising designer of the early 20th century the inventor of the modern poster. Breaking with the decorative complexity of Art Nouveau, he developed a bold, immediately legible style built on a single vivid image against a dark background, creating advertising works of such memorable power that they are collected as fine art. His posters

simplicity

His views of Venice — luminous

Designated a Living National Treasure by the Japanese government in 1956

These works are among the most treasured objects in East Asian art

His figure drawings — labourers

in the intervals between writing

His drawings remain essential to any collection of Symbolist or Expressionist art

the Tughra was stamped on imperial decrees

The image of a giant woman straddling a highway

His warrior triptychs remain among the most dynamic images of 19th-century art

000 couplets narrating the mythological and historical kings of Persia from creation to the Islamic conquest

and other large animals — works of raw physical presence and striking compositional power