Robert Mcginnis

Yaya nous envoie le bonjour avec You Just Gotta Know My Mind de Karen Verros en 1965, a girl in the garage ! Illustration: McGinnis

Today brings the 90th birthday of acclaimed American artist Robert McGinnis , who for decades now has been producing eye-catching, frequen...

The prolific artist, known for his “McGinnis Woman” femme fatales, has contributed hundreds of book covers and movie posters to pop culture over the course of his decades-long career.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Robert McGinnis, American illustrator, was raised in Wyoming, Ohio. McGinnis became an apprentice at Walt Disney studios, then studied fine art at Ohio State University.

ROBERT MCGINNIS (American, b. 1926) Nude Posing with Tapestry Oil on board 18 x 10.5 in. (sight) Signed lower - Available at 2015 May 14 Illustration Art...

artist- Robert McGinnis

Robert McGinnis illustration for John D. MacDonald's "The Last One Left". Argosy magazine, July 1967

It's Noirsville, a visually oriented blog celebrating the vast and varied sources of inspiration, all of the resulting output, and all of the creative reflections back, of a particular style/tool of film making used in certain film/plot sequences or for a films entirety that conveyed claustrophobia, alienation, obsession, and events spiraling out of control, that came to fruition in the roughly the period of the last two and a half decades of B&W film.

This painting by the legendary Robert McGinnis is one of several images that we recently gave to a group of NCCA computer animation students as part of an essay brief that aimed to help them hone their image analysis skills. The idea is for students to gain confidence in their ability to critically evaluate an image, allowing them to articulate how and why they feel a particular image is successful (or not successful, depending on taste). In the spirit of never expecting students to do…