Mexican guy here. I've been a fan of Cabral for over 30 years. He was called "el Chango" (the Monkey) when he was a kid because he could easily climb palm trees. His scholarship in Paris ended because there was a coup d'etat in Mexico in 1913, and the new government didn't go on supporting him. The newspaper 'Excélsior' started in 1917 and still exists. It had some of the best caricature artists of the 20th century in my country. He was friends with actors and singers, such as María Félix, Cantinflas, Pedro Vargas. His fame was marred because of his politics. Most great draftsmen in Mexico have been left-wing, but Cabral was conservative. But there has been a resurgence of his fame in the 21st century. Nowadays there is a foundation devoted to promote his work, called Taller Ernesto García Cabral.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for your comment, and for filling in the gaps

@DonIntiRosso

10 ай бұрын

@@petebeard Thank you, Mr Beard, for this and all of the other wonderful videos you present. Your channel is enlightening and I am a devoted fan of it.

@bigblue6917

10 ай бұрын

@@DonIntiRosso Thanks for your additional information. As we have seen in a number of cases an artists political beliefs can be a problem. Europe in the 20th century come to mind, especially if you are on the opposite side to everyone else. I am pleased he has now gotten the recognition he so very much deserves.

@DisasterService

10 ай бұрын

I'd never heard of him until viewing this video. He's pretty incredible.

@JacksonTaylorandTheSinners

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for this. 🙏🏼

My education continues, thanks Pete. I also suspect that Cabral should have been awarded " a life well lived" award from what he managed to cram into his time on Earth.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and I'll second that opinion. Thanks for the comment.

What a fantastical and versatile illustrator. I definitely see why you gave him an entire video to himself. Anything less would never have done him full justice.

@gerardtessers

10 ай бұрын

Glad to agree with you; also very pleasantly surprised by the caricatures! A very fine and versatile artist to add to an already impressive collection!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and I'm very pleased by your response - and that of other viewers - to his remarkable body of work.

Exceptional episode! Thank you very much for covering this extraordinary Spanish-American artist. Mexican, Argentine, and Cuban artists don't often get much critical focus outside of the Spanish-speaking nations. So, I applaud your in-depth analysis of his work and his artistic techniques. Bravo!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks for the comment. It's one of the more frustrating aspects of finding subjects for the channel that some regions - and yes Latin America is one of them - just don't seem to want to broadcast their illustration heritage.

A stunning variety of styles. Very imaginative. A true master of his chosen mediums.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and I'm glad that you - and quite a few other viewers - are of that opinion. Me too, of course.

I will have to admit that despite being from Mexico I was unaware of his existence until you brought him up on your unsung heroes series, since then I have become a fan of his work so thank you once again for giving him a proper retrospective of his body of work.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and I'm grateful for your appreciation. He deserves greater exposure and respect, no boubt in my mind.

You know, you're right. This guy needs more international recognition. What an artist. I love his work.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and hopefully the video will at least introduce him to a few thousand more admirers.

11:13 Cabral could've been a study for a caricature himself in this photo! I may have seen some of his caricatures in Design magazines in the library of the college I went to, but cannot for the life of me, ever recollect having seen his awesome portfolio! He so effortlessly straddled caricatures, poster art, fashion art... Thanks again, Pete! Our education and enlightenment continues...!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and he did actually create some caricatures of himself (an admittedly easy target) but none were good enough resolution to use. As the old joke goes I'd have given my right arm to be that good an illustrator...

If illustrators and their body of works were taught in my fine arts university education 50 years ago I would have been even better at drawing all this time. Since watching this channel I’ve been more inspired with my pen and ink drawings. Never too late.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. One of the main problems with universities when it comes to the subject of illustration is that those who are supposed to be teaching it actually don't know much, and understand less. Been there, done that, as they say

I cannot agree more : prodigious talent. Thanks a lot to let us know about this artist.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again, and Im very pleased with the response of many viewers to this video. He deserves far greater attention.

I'm always impressed by the versatility of this era artists. They have an excellent command of drawing skills, a fantastic sense of graphic design, and an informed understanding of colour. Oh, and a superior work ethic. Illustrators these days seldom possess any 2 of these qualities. Cabral needs more recognition because he doesnt seem to have a weakness, all his styles are fully formed. Very impressive, as was the video, thanks.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation and assessment of Garcia Cabral's astonishing talent. As you say, whatever he did, he did it impeccably. I'm riddled with envy.

Your art of all these unsung Artists never ceases to fully please.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks a lot for your appreciation.

Thank you! Another great discovery to me! What a prodigious artist!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and youre welcome. A 60 year career and countless thousands of great images.

Nice to see a Mexican and Latin artist, Chango Cabral, all time favorite! :D If you like Cabral's work I think you are going to like the works of: Miguel Covarrubias. He was also another great versatile Mexican illustrator from that era. Check it out! :)

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. And like Garcia Cabral, Miguel Covarrubias has already featured in the unsung heroes series and I'm just finshing off a video entirely dedicated to his work, just like this one. Great minds think alike...

I know next to nothing about illustrators from Mexico, so this was a real treat and eye-opener. Such lively figures and great expressions! And the expressive line work was a delight to see. I agree, Pete, he should be more well-known. Thanks as always for educating us. Hope you are staying cool during these hot days. Cheers!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello Doug and I'm glad you enjoyed this look at his remarkable work. But what hot days are you talking about? Here is generally cool and of course, wet. No danger of forest fires here.

Thank you Richard for this presentation on Garcia Cabral , I remember seeing the posters on walls, these posters were as large as a man, seeing Cantinflas, Tin Tan without having heard of the artist.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of this video and Garcia Cabral's wonderful work. But who is Richard?

A true genius. I particularly love his ability with line. As you say he should be much better known!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello, and if the video creates a few thousand new admirers I'll consider that a job well(ish) done.

Someone totally new to me, but what an artistic genius. Thank you Peter.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and I'm pleased to have introduced you to his remarkable work.

His grasp of facial expression is glorious, very inspiring. Thank you sir for bringing this artist to my attention.

@petebeard

9 ай бұрын

Hello and I;m very pleased to have introduced you to his wonderful work.

Meraviglioso, grazie ❤

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and you are more than welcome.

Surprised that he didn't do a comic strip ....😊

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hi and thanks for the comment.

Holy Cow. Immensely talented. Thanks for another great video Pete Delightful, funny and satyrical. Wow.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and I'm glad you appreciate his considerable talent. You have to wonder why he isn't better known.

Enormous imagination and craftsmanship.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for the comment. If I'd have had just half his talent I could have been more of a contender.

Thank you for bringing to light such an amazing artist, and as for your topic on why Garcia has not got much exposure internationally is tragedy on it own. Many of the works you have shown are awe inspiring and we can see snippets in the design laguage today.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the video and Cabral's remarkable talent.

Huge fan of Cabral. I wish their family would release his work to the public in some medium. It deserves way more attention.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for your comment. And yes there should be a big fat book.

@sr_bob

10 ай бұрын

@@petebeard I should mention there are two books but they are very rare, hard to find, expensive and they feature pretty much the same.

Cabral Is amazing! I live in San Diego, Ca, USA and have never heard of him although I live only 20 miles from the Mexican border and have taken art classes locally; sad. All his caricature work is wonderful, but I especially like his two-dimensional art deco style; pure genius. Thanks again as usual for this enlightening bit of art history.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks again for your appreciation. I'm very pleased you share my opinion of his talents. And its interesting (but not in a good way) that his reputation didn't make it over the border. On the other hand I just discovered a cartoon illustrator from about 20 miles from my home who I had previously never known about.

Very colourful, thank you for sharing this with us all...cheers...E...😊😊😊

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and my thanks as always.

@eamonnclabby7067

10 ай бұрын

​@@petebeard....😊

Masterful illustrator with superb eye for composition to typography. Wonderful episode once again, many thanks!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of this video and Garcia Cabral's wonderful work. If only I had been half that talented...

Not only did he do excellent work he did an amazing amount of work. He definitely doesn't have the recognition that he deserves. Thank you for the wonderful video Pete.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks. Ofcourse I feel about him precisely as you do, and it really does beggar belief that suxh a talent has been almost buried since his death.

Excelent presentation of a very importan visual artist in Mexico , with a presence among the widest public as not other famous had. He was a very notable artist for me, since very young, and after , when I did study at the same San Carlos Academy. But he is not yet considered as important in art history , seen only as ilustrator, cartoon maker. Thanks for your notable work, also.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the video. I only discoverd Garcia Cabral's work a few years ago and I think he is a true genius who should be much better known. Sadly it's true that artists get far more attention than illustrators, and that's one of the reasons I started the channel. You may be interested to know Im currently working on a video about Miguel Covarrubias - another genius.

I enjoyed this Episode so much! Thank you.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks for the comment. I'm glad you enjoyed his work.

What a remarkable illustrator. Even his early work seemed to be that of a seasoned artist. Such a long and prolific career. Thank you for this wonderful video.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again, and many thanks for your appreciation. I'm glad to say he seems to have made quite an impression on many viewers - and so he should.

Beautiful work. I have to be honest I have never heard of him or seen his art before this video. So a big thank you to you for introducing me to this artist and his work.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your commented. I'm delighted to see that you are far from alone in admiring his work.

@boris1932

10 ай бұрын

@@petebeard You're welcome -- You do excellent work with the videos.

Amazing¡¡¡¡ Thank you for sharing his work¡¡¡

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. I'm pleased you enjoyed his work.

Wow! Had absolutely no idea about this bloke! Kinda shocked by that, hard to fathom how such a clearly stellar, first rate talent could slip past me like that. Many thanks for that Pete, what a gobsmackingly amazing artist.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your positive comment. I'm in awe at the productivity and skills of Garcia Cabral, and I really hope the video introduces him to at least a few thousand more.

Lots of his later work reminds of the various illustrators in Mad Magazine. Your growing number of followers IS helping give many of these artists some of the renown they may have missed earlier. Bravo to you for that! LOVED this - again!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hi again and even if it's only a few thousand new admirers of his work I'll consider that a small victory.

Thank you for another excellent video!🙏🏽💙😎

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks again. Your support is appreciated.

Incredible talents and scope. Thank you very much for another fascinating episode on this wonderful channel.

Home Run !!! THANKS !!!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for your comment.

I love his style.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hi and thanks for the comment.

Glad to see him get a deeper dive - so many talents, thanks for this!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for your appreciation.

Thanks so much for showcasing the wonderful work of "El Chango" Cabral, he certainly deserves to be better known. You should also take a look at another great Mexican artist of that era, Miguel Covarrubias. He is a little better known because he painted some covers for Vanity Fair in the 20s or 30s.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for the appreciation. And the suggestion of Miguel Covarrubias, but I'm already in the process of completing a similar video on his marvellous work. Both of them featured in brief in my Unsung Heroes of Illustration series but I really wanted to feature them in greater detail.

@robertoaudiffred7936

10 ай бұрын

@@petebeard You're doing a great job! Keep it up!

Such a talented artist! Thank you for another wonderful video, Pete. ❤ SayessDesign

@petebeard

9 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks as usual for your appreciation

Just finished the video, another of many of your unsung artists series, and I need to thanks you by all the love, work, time and effort that you has set creating these videos. Yours is also a labor of research and educational craft that will get more recognition with the timeless info that you exposed to us.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel content, and this video in particular. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Muchas gracias, an artists if not for your work i would have not known.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and I'm very pleased to have introduced you to Cabral's astonishing output.

Excellent channel. I am happy I found this.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for the comment. I'm pleased you found the channel too.

Great video thanks very much

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

My pleasure.

Thank you for this video

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello - and thank you for the positive comment.

excellent as always.Thanks

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks for the appreciation.

That was very nice and an artist of whom I had no knowledge. Thanks.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and I'm very pleased to have introduced you to his work.

Very inspirational 👍🏻

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for the positive comment.

Brilliant work. I particularly love the flat 1920s graphic covers. At 6:17 we see Professor Auguste Piccard, balloonist and submariner, who was the inspiration for Hergé's Tryphon Tournesol (Cuthbert Calculus) (and perhaps for the name of the Star Trek commander?)

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks. And I did wonder who the large forehead caricature might be.

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I don't think that I have ever seen his work before. He could certainly turn his hand to any form of visual communications and make himself understood. Which reminds me. I haven't seen that Mexican actor since my parents took me to a drive-in to see "Around the World in Eighty Days" with David Niven. I do believe that I will Goggle him tonight. Thank you for the education and seeing someone who had many sides to his personality May the coming week bring you blessings and laughter!🏕📚🫖🪺🐈‍⬛🖖

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks for the comment. It's always welcome. And thanks for reminding me where I'd seen that Mexican chap before too. He seemed oddly familiar.

@damogranheart5521

10 ай бұрын

@petebeard Has the UK ever had drive-in theaters? Somehow, I can't quite picture it.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

@@damogranheart5521 No we haven't. Our cinema tradition dierctly evolved from the old theatre and music hall, and until the 1960s (yes - that late) not many working class people even had cars. My old man got his first in 1961 and we were the talk of the neighbourhood.

Pete, that was lovely. Thank you. I've sent the link to my nephew, who shows signs of liking art.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your favourable comment. And maybe you should warn your nephew that a career in illustration can be a bumpy ride. On the other hand I managed 45 years with a fairly mediocre talent. I wish him the very best of luck whatever he chooses to do.

amazing video! it would be wonderful to see one about the Brazilian artist J. Carlos. one of the biggest names in Brazilian illustration from the beginning of the 20th century

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for your comment and appreciation. I featured José Carlos in Unsung Heroes 3, which you can find on the channel. I love his work and wish I could make a video just about him but there just aren't enough good resolution images available to enable me to do so. I need a minimum of 100, and I can't find anyting like that number, unfortunately.

His work does reflect that he lived his life to the fullest & enjoyed it highly apparently dancing & drawing his way through it all ... *Thanks Pete* for highlighting this wonderful artist

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again, and yes there is the feeling that he did grab life with both hands and squeeze out as much as he could. So prolific and so skilful.

Great video and amazing talent in the artist, Pete. Thanks for the doing this

@petebeard

9 ай бұрын

Hello and I'm glad you appreciate this illustrator's work...and mine...

Thanks so much for your hard work as always. Really appreciate your efforts on these and I love learning these artists.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and my thanks to you for your continued support for the channel.

Amazing! I can see, in some of his Illustrations, where Garcia may've influenced Patrick Nagel. Thank you, Pete.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it. And I must confess I'd never heard of Patrick Nagel, but a quick google search reveals that you are surely correct in your suspicions. Uncanny similarity.

Once again you have introduced me to an illustrator I have never heard of and most likely have never seen his work. He was definitely great at what he did. I really enjoyed many of the exhibits despite the fact my Spanish is not all that good. Thanks again.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and I'm very pleased to have introduced you to this great and underappreciated illustrator. I tried translating some of the captions but couldn't make much sense of them. Too Mexico-specific I think.

wonderful find!! thanks pete

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.

Wow. The sheer breadth of his work is amazing! Watching your videos of some of the illustrators I'm struck with how long some of their careers were compared to now. I can't really think of any contemporary illustrators who come close to some of them...

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I try not to over-use the word 'genius' but in Cabral's case I'm happy to make an exception.

man ! my hero.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment.

Wow! Wonderful work! Wonderful video!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hi and I'm delighted that you - and quite a few others - are impressed by his astonishing work.

@TheMikester307

10 ай бұрын

@@petebeard Yes!

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He certainly was able to encompass many varied techniques and styles. What a talent! Thank you for presenting this artist so well.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. I'm very pleased you enjoyed his work.

Great video Pete! I hadn't been aware of this guy.... very interesting style.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks for your appreciation. I'm glad you enjoyed his work.

As always, Dr Beard, excellence personified on ALL LEVELS of the production process. BRAVO and congratulations. P.s. I THINK Sir Winston Churchill would be a faithful subscribed to channel, indeed. Respectfully submitted for your consideration Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA etats unis

@petebeard

7 ай бұрын

Hello again, and thanks as ever for your good opinion of the channel and my work on it.

Impressive talent.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

He certainly was.

Very interesting retrospective on this artist. Certainly, there is at least one internationally well-known Mexican illustrator, José Guadalupe Posada, the famous author of the Calavera Catrina, who has influenced the aesthetics of the Day of the Dead so much in popular Mexican festivities; However, there are several other leading Mexican illustrators from the same time period who are practically unknown outside of Mexico, from Miguel Covarrubias, artist, illustrator and anthropologist who made magnificent illustrations of his travels through Mexico and Asia, or who portrayed night life in the USA in Harlem, with jazz music and the follies of the Charleston and other dances of the time, to Jorge Carreño, specialized in portraying, often in caricature form, the fashions, characters and cinema of the 30s and 40s. It would be interesting to see that these artists begin to be known beyond the Mexican borders. There is a historical point that I would like to mention here, and that may shed some light on the work of García Cabral. The Mexico where García Cabral was born and raised was ruled by Porfirio Díaz, a Republican military hero in the war against the French invasion, who later became a progressive-leaning dictator who ruled Mexico with an iron hand for 30 years. Díaz was a dictator, and of course there was no democracy in Mexico while he ruled the country, but he was also a staunch supporter of progress, achieving prosperity and modernity, and above all, stability, for the first time in Mexico since its independence from Spain, and contrary to what is usually thought, he also made clear advances in social justice. In addition, he was a great admirer of the culture and modernity of Europe and the United States, and he did everything possible for Mexico to follow that same path of progress. In 1910, Francisco Madero ran for the presidential elections of that year, competing against Díaz, and managed to win with his message of democratic renewal; however, Díaz did not recognize Madero's electoral triumph, and an armed insurrection broke out, which would later be known as the Mexican Revolution. Díaz, after only five months, decided that there was no point in continuing to oppose the change, and he left the country, going into exile in France, at which point, Madero became the new president of Mexico. That is where the revolution should have ended, and the damage from the war would have been relatively light. However, Madero was only able to remain president for a couple of years, before being assassinated, along with his vice president José María Pino Suárez, in a coup d'état organized against him by a traitorous military officer, who became the new president, only to fall in turn two years later, and be replaced by a new president who was also betrayed, etc., and so the Revolution lasted for a whole decade, until 1920, in an unnecessary bloodbath. The government that was finally consolidated in Mexico after the Revolution was a totalitarian government, but it changed its president every few years, so as not to return to the one-man dictatorship model, as in Díaz's time, and replacing that model by the party dictatorship, which maintained complete power in Mexico for more than 70 years. That party dictatorship dominated most of Mexican public life in the 20th century, and since it saw its own origin in the uprising against Díaz, it built a great ultranationalist mythology, based on glorifying the Revolution, and on systematically attacking Díaz, representing him not only as a dictator, but rather as a bloodthirsty "murderer and exploiter of the people" and the like, while glorifying Madero, turned into a "martyr for democracy." But in the two years in which he remained president, Madero was a rather ineffective ruler, with good intentions, but with too many personal limitations to be able to properly lead the country, due to his vacillations, contradictory policies, and multiple miscalculations, over all in the naivety with which he assumed that everyone would respect his presidential authority. These mistakes, of course, ultimately cost him his life. So, it is very understandable the way in which García Cabral saw the Madero government, and the reasons he had to ridicule it as he did. For García Cabral, the government that throughout his life had represented seriousness and administrative efficiency was that of Díaz, while the new "revolutionary" government of Madero was an inefficient, improvised government, full of broken promises and bad government errors, and that is why he represents President Madero and interim President De la Barra as donkeys, at minute 1 of the video, or as village idiots, etc. It was something very understandable and justified in those moments. But, of course, then Madero and Pino Suárez were assassinated, they became martyrs, the Revolution resumed, and in the end the new “revolutionary” government of Mexico officially instituted contempt for Díaz and the cult of Madero, with which the political opinions of García Cabral at the time ended up on the “wrong side” of official history. He was even accused several times of having helped, with his caricatures, to the fall of Madero. This is similar to the situation in which the German cartoonists in the 1920s ferociously mocked the Weimar Republic, without knowing, of course, that the Republic would eventually fall, and that the Nazis and war would follow. But, just as it is unfair to blame the cartoonists who mocked the Weimar politicians for weakening it and what followed, it is equally unfair to blame García Cabral for what happened with Madero and the Revolution. In any case, many histories of political caricature in Mexico have been written by people on the left, or by sympathizers of the Mexican Revolution, and as a rule they have left out García Cabral and many other very talented artists, because they were not militant leftists.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation and remarkably detailed insight into Mexican politics in this period, which of course as an Englishman, and very much not a historian I knew nothing about. And I'm pleased to say that both Posada and Covarrubias have already featured on the channel, however briefly. Posada is in unsung heroes 86 and Covarrubias in unsung heroes 11. And although I can't give Posada a video to himself as I can't get enough high resolution imagery or biography, I'm happy to report I'm currently working on a video dedicated just to Covarrubias and his marvellous work. Again, thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge and insight.

@jorgeroaro

10 ай бұрын

@@petebeard I am glad to be able to contribute, even a little, to explain the general context. I even thought of trying to explain the jokes and word plays in the short sentences that García Cabral used to complement his caricatures, because many of them are very witty, but that was a bit complicated. I have not seen the episodes dedicated to Posada and Covarrubias, but I will look for them immediately. I had never thought about the problem of finding enough high-resolution images on the internet to be able to make these videos. In Mexico, certainly, there are several books dedicated to Posada, Covarrubias and several others, full of good quality images, and it would be easy to scan those images for a video, but I have no idea if that material is available on the web. It is also possible, in some cases, to take photographs directly of the works exhibited in the museums, but I think that this is much less reliable in terms of guaranteeing the quality of the image, and also has the disadvantage of having to travel to different places where the works are exhibited. As for the biographical material, I think there is enough of these artists, although I'm not sure how much is available in English. If there is information about these artists that is only available in Spanish, I would be happy to translate it for you into English, as I really like the idea of making these magnificent artists known to a wider and international audience.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

@@jorgeroaro Hello again, and you are correct in thinking that such books are unavailable over here online, and I have to say in all honesty that if I had relied on books for my information I would be considerably poorer than I am. The internet is far from perfect but it is free to use and I do have access to some national archives. Your offer to translate is very generous but I take a certain pride in being a one man band in the making of these videos, and however superficial the content - and I know it is - I can only spend so much time on any given illustrator as there are still literally hundreds of others I want to feature before my own demise. But my thanks once more.

@jorgeroaro

10 ай бұрын

@@petebeard Very well then, I wish you the best luck with these videos, which are really of great quality. Of course, being "a one man band" when producing the videos gives you even greater merit for their good realization. And indeed, there are many excellent but forgotten artists in the field of illustration, and you will never be short of interesting themes to make new videos (perhaps you should think, if possible, also to take advantage of all this research on the videos to produce one or two books, that can serve as a reference for libraries and bibliographic archives). Certainly, there are many themes to study and to use to try to reconstruct the history of the illustration art, not to mention making them known to the general public, and this is too much work for any individual researcher. To give an example, here in Spain there was a magazine called Blanco y Negro, in the 20s and 30s, which looked a lot like Revista de Revistas, the Mexican publication for which García Cabral worked for many years, with a very modern style in those years, that shows very well the way from Art Noveau to Art Déco, and it was characterized, especially on its covers, by innumerable illustrations of elegant and sophisticated women dressed in fashion, with very stylized, beautiful and really imaginative images. A true delight of illustrations. Last year, a Museum of Fine Arts in Málaga made a great exhibition on the image of women in art, and as a complement to that great exhibition, it also made a secondary mini-exhibition on the women in Blanco y Negro magazine, which presented some sixty or so of those excellent color illustrations of the covers, but unfortunately putting the emphasis only on the existence of the magazine, without dedicating any time to talk about the artists who worked on it. Well, it is an example of something that one knows that it existed, but of which there is almost no information available, much less real art books. Well, I don't want to take your time away anymore. Again, congratulations, and I wish you good luck with your next videos.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

@@jorgeroaro Hello again, and thanks again for your appreciation of my work. And I'm pleased to respond to your information and suggestions, although it's both good and not so good news. I'm aware of Blanco y Negro and like the illustrations I've been able to find. But I can't find enough material so far to make a video. Even the Biblioteca Nacional de España will not allow online access to their archive. And it's a similar problem with another Spanish magazine Nuevo Mundo, where the images are in monochrome only. But I will persevere and maybe in the end I will find enough to feature them. But I do have enough examples from the humorous magazines Buen Humor and Guttierez, and that is a work in progress. I really admire the work of Francisco Lopez Rubio, who's work features in these magazines, and in Gente Menuda, the children's supplement of Blanco y Negro. He appears in unsung heroes 46 if you are interested to see his work. The possibility of books is a subject currently under discussion with publishers, but as a natural pessimist I'm not convinced it will come to anything, and the world of publishing is very slow moving. As an old man I may well run out of breath and time. If it does happen of course I will promote any books via the channel. Once more, thanks a lot for your engagement with me and the channel and I hope you will continue to watch and stay in touch. I like to chat with viewers. Best wishes, Pete

Excellent, video, Pete! wonderful work of research and investigation, bravo!!! Great to see you making videos about Latin American illustrators. I hope one day you make one video about the Argentinian illustrator Carlos Nine, he was a genius. Gracias por la labor que haces para rescatar y mantener vivo el trabajo de tantos ilustradores extraordinarios. I didn't know the body of work of Ernesto Garcia Cabral, it is just IMPRESSIVE!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation and support. And Carlos Nine is already on my list of illustrators to feature in the future, and I agree about the marvellous work he created. I can't give you any clear indication of when he is likely to appear - it's a long queue and I'm not very organised or methodical. But if I live long enough I guarantee he will have his own video.

@oswros

10 ай бұрын

​@@petebeard Hello Pete. Thanks for your kind reply. I must apologize because I always watch your videos (they are simply amazing) and I have never commented before and I know that this not only helps the channel, but it is also a gesture of thanks for all the work you do. I know that creating a video like the ones you do takes a lot of time, between research, writing, and editing. I'll keep an eye on your videos and the one on Carlos Nine, of course. Thank you very much again. And hugs from Venezuela.

The way that you pronounced Cántiphläs 😆man, your videos are always a joy to watch

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. My life would be considerably easier if the rest of the world would just use English...

@perritoDeSatanas

10 ай бұрын

​@@petebeard 🤣🤣🤣🤣 ¿qué otra respuesta me esperaba de un inglés? jajajajaja. En serio, muchas gracias por tus videos, he descubierto artistas increíbles gracias a tu canal. Un abrazo grandote🖤

I've seen some of this artwork before, but had no idea who the artist was. I appreciate getting to know him better.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.

I have an original Cabral movie poster on Craigslist right now. I had it mounted on board, as these old Mexican posters are way more fragile than the typical National Screen Service ones from the same era.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and I hope you get the asking price. I don't suppose you know for sure what he used to paint them?

@sclogse1

9 ай бұрын

@@petebeard Not for sure. But any signs of airbrush technique indicates acrylic. By the way, my poster is the Sinbad El Mareado.

Muy bueno! And it seems to me that something of his caricature style showed up in the underground comics of the late 60s!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks for both your recent comments. I fully concur about Cabral's stylistic connections - Mad magazine too. I must admit I was only aware of Silverstein's kid's work - and Silvia's mother. Oh yes and a very funny joke about two prisoners in a dungeon.

@wynnschaible

10 ай бұрын

@@petebeard In the late 60s he did a series of extremely funny (and filthy) cartoons for Playboy!

Marvelous, as always! There are several images here, I’d like to sculpt…

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and yes I can see how that would be tempting - his figures are partlcularly 3 dimensionally plausible.

Your kidding me, he was the guy how drew the Cantiflas movie posters? God knows how many times i have seen those posters in antique shops in San Jaun.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello, and much as I love his work Mexican popular culture isn't a high priority in Britain so I knew nothing about those films or magazines.

@tommyadkins844

10 ай бұрын

@@petebeard Dont worry that understanable , plus Cantiflas is more of a latin american icon thank anything else.

talented busy guy!

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks a lot for your recent batch of comments. You're absolutely right about Thiriet's poster work, and I hope you found out all you needed to about the Berté process. What I don't undrstand is why he didn't just paint them as watercolour/gouache and use offset litho. Weird.

I like, Jefferson Machamer ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

So do I, and he's waiting in line to appear in the unsung heroes series. No idea when, though.

👍👍👍👍👍

I need to look through everything to make sure, I haven’t missed a Franklin Booth video. If, I haven’t; may, I suggested as Franklin Booth video? If there is a Booth video. Thank you. 🙏🏼

Nice episode! I'm wondering if you have ever talked about Carlos Meglia before on your channel?

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks. Unfortunately Carlos Meglia (who I had never before encountered so thanks a lot) can't appear as a subject on the channel - you have to be dead to qualify, and it looks like he's got a few good years in him yet.

Great post. Some of his work reminded me of Robert Crumb, although I like Cabral much much better than Crumb.

@petebeard

4 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.

Excelente, muy maravilloso Pete!! Pero… hay que trabajar un poquito más en los acentos😅 👏 👏 👏

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks. Sorry about the accent - the English can't do foreign languages.

I think he did the occasional album cover as well 🤔

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for the comment. If he did I certainly couldn't find any. A great pity.

His skill as an illistrator is supurb, but the captions are lost to me as I only speak English.

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. In truth, even if you translate them, most of the captions don't make any sense to most of us anyway, as they are specific to Mexican politics and daily life. I tend to view them as I would some British cartoon from Punch in 1860 - even in English I tend not to get the joke, but ultimately I don't care.

Excelentes videos. Pero por qué música argentina para un artista mexicano?

@petebeard

10 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks. The connection was that Cabral was apparently a talented dancer of the tango as stated at the end of the video. And I could not find any usable mexican instrumental music.

@BrianSiano

13 күн бұрын

@@petebeard What music is that? I'd like to get it for myself.

@petebeard

13 күн бұрын

@@BrianSiano It all came from a youtube compilation called Tango Retro (vintage music). A search using that name should take you there.

@BrianSiano

13 күн бұрын

@@petebeard Will do. Thanks! (BTW, I love your videos, and I got my housemate to start watching them as well. Beyond our love of illustration, she finds your voice extremely soothing.)