Killing Time in Cuba

On yet another overcast, crappy New York workday, when I should be focused on the September fashion photo edit, pulling layouts together, and periodically getting up to flex some managerial muscles in the small of my back, I find myself instead with my door closed, furtively tinkering with Pandora and coddling my OCD habit: surfing the web for original paintings of late 60's, early 70's Cuban poster art. It's kind of win-win since if I'm suddenly rudely interrupted by my Managing Editor telling me to pass along a first-proof, it looks as if I'm merely "researching" illustrators and therefore doing legit biz. Now if only I could accompany my little siesta with a Mojito, I'd be ALL set. The following images may or may not be

attributed to either Eduardo Bachs, Nico, or Antonio Reboiro, whom I believe is alive and well and living and working in Madrid today. These are the original paintings and drawings that were the first step in producing movie posters. They were photographed and enlarged to the poster size, hence the pencil cross marks. They're especially appealing to me since later, as posters they feel colder, commercial. At this stage, they're fine art, and that's perfecto. Since I've run out of time to cut and paste some Wikipedia info on these boys, I encourage you all to take a nice long stretch out of your busy day to look them up yourselves and see what a little repressive governing can do for one's creative juices.