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Did you know that the original cover of the American novel The Great Gatsby was made by a Catalan artist?
His name was Francis Cugat (an anglicized version of his birth name Francesc Cugat), and he was brother to the famous musician Xavier Cugat. Francesc was born in 1893 in Barcelona (Catalonia), but when he was young his family migrated to Cuba and later to the USA.
He was a little-known illustrator who worked creating posters for American opera houses when he was found by F. Scott-Fitzgerald’s publisher while the author was still working on the book. The publisher sent Francis Cugat a summary of the novel and the working title “Among Ash Heaps and Millionaires”, and commissioned him to make a book cover. Francis Cugat made various sketches around the idea of a disembodied face of a flapper suspended over the New York cityscape. He sent this final version to the publisher, and both him and Fitzgerald loved it.
Fitzgerald was still working on the manuscript when he received the illustration. As his letters to the editor show, he was so pleased with the image that he intentionally edited his writing to tie it into the book. The letters don’t clearly state what parts of the book were influenced by the cover, but it's believed that the face at the cover inspired the description of the billboard of optometrist T. J. Eckleburg, and also a description of Daisy as the “girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs”.
For the rest of his life, Francis Cugat continued painting and making illustrations for films and theatre, and later became a Technicolor colour consultant for more than 60 Hollywood films and as a set designer. He died in 1981. His work is little known, but his Celestial Eyes remain one of the most famous book covers of all times.
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robertmatejcek · 1 year
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After Cugat: Lights (Animation from Celestial Eyes by Francis Cugat) - digital media - robert matejcek - 2022
“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher."
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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lemuseum · 1 year
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hongkongartman-mlee · 10 months
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The Story Of The 1st Impresario In Hong Kong Mr Harry Odell, His Empire Theatre (璇宮戲院) & To Be Continued尚未完場, The Touching Film About This Jewish Man
An ‘impresario’ is a person who organizes and finances concerts, plays and operas. Art intermediaries are important. They make the availability of art performances much more accessible for the public. A good impresario knows well the audience and their needs.
Mr Harry Odell, a Jewish man, was born in 1896. He came to live in Hong Kong in 1921 and died in 1975 at the age of 79.
It was said that his real name was ‘Harry Obadofsky’. He was the son of Russian Jewish parents. He was educated at St. Francis Xavier’s College, in Shanghai. He ran away from home at 16 and supported himself as a tap dancer in Japan, before emigrating to the USA. In 1921, Obadofsky arrived in Hong Kong and changed his surname to Odell for the reason of marrying a girl Sophie Weill whose family owned the prestigious jewellery business Sennet Freres in Hong Kong. He fought in the defence of Hong Kong in 1941 and was made a prisoner of war by the Japanese.  
Mr Odell loved art and culture. By persuading international acclaimed artists such as Xavier Cugat and Issace Stern to perform here in the colony in those years, he was the first impresario in the history of Hong Kong. He tirelessly lobbied the colonial government to build a permanent place for art performances. As a result, the first such venue, Hong Kong City Hall, was completed in 1962(information provided by Judy Green from 'The Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography’).
Mr Odell built his own concert theatre and film cinema known as the ‘Empire Theatre璇宮戲院’ in 1952.  It was located in the North Point area along King’s Road and in those years, North Point was regarded as a remote place. Business was bad and it closed in 1957, and re-opened in 1959 as the ‘State Theatre皇都戲院’ following the purchase by a rich Chinese businessman and extensive renovations. The State Theatre sadly closed in 1997.
Concerns were raised in 2015 that the heritage building might be demolished. In 2020, a big property developer in Hong Kong New World Development acquired the ownership right of the Theatre and put forward good proposals related to the conservation of State Theatre. The Theatre is being repaired and will be opened soon for the third time.
The above is not just a story of history. It is a love story of how Harry Odell loved Hong Kong and how we loved this art hero. His life is one big touching story with hundreds of little touching stories within it.  
2 film directors, Dora Choi & Haider Kikabhoy, made an evocative documentary movie about the noble story of Harry Odell and it is called To Be Continued 尚未完場.  This piece of impressive work looks back on the history of the State Theatre (formerly the Empire Theatre) and the great life of Harry Odell. A film critic wrote this: “Kikabhoy and Choi created a film that is not just educational; it is also upbeat, amusing and heart felt at the same time.”
Apart from visiting Odell’s grave in Happy Valley and gazing at Odell’s former residence Old Alberose in Pokfulam, you must watch this heart-warming good film To Be Continued! Maurice Lee To Be Continued Trailer  https://youtu.be/U6GICy7Nmpc   Acknowledgement – 尚未完場  Hong Kong City Hall  https://youtu.be/fg97X8gfsrA  Acknowledgement – Online Museum
State Theatre  https://youtu.be/S7D0U8DgEyo   Acknowledgement – Bloomberg Television 
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cyber-corp · 9 months
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“don’t judge a book by its cover” Wrong. Absolutely judge a book by its cover art.
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Take a look at this cover of a repress of “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell. A decent cover, yes? You’d see this on the shelf, think it looks okay, and then never think about it again.
Now look at THIS.
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The first pressing cover of the novel from 1948 by illustrator Hannes Bok. Look at how fucking hard it goes. Look how it combines surrealist, almost gothic imagery with the main themes of the novel (humanity, paranoia, etc.). Look at the fucking FACE. Instantly more memorable and will definitely leave an impact on whichever library-goer sees it first.
To some, first impressions are extremely important when it comes to a piece of text or media. If you can judge an album or a game by its art, then surely you can judge a book by one.
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The Great Gatsby, with its amazing first press cover, painted by Francis Cugat
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A Clockwork Orange has many great ones, but the one copy I have has a boring Penguin template one
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lolabythebaysims · 7 months
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Here you go, anon: 42 signs for the price of 14! Turns out I was a lazy monster and had mostly popped my own textures into the original packages (available here, if you want more contemporary/English language advertising), so I fixed that and cleaned up some little texture issues in the process. When I was taking preview pics I remembered how annoying it was that only the big six-tile mesh was quarter-tile enabled. I fixed the smaller 3- and 4-tile meshes; nothing is renamed so let these overwrite any you might have in your downloads already.
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Row 1: Hanby Auto Sales, Simoco 1, Simoco 2, Texaco Row 2: Sofi Pofi soap, Great Gatsby-inspired eyes, Rinso laundry soap, Mr. Crack in Simlish Row 3: Cerise Noir cigarettes, Lucky Strike cigarettes, Llama brand cigarettes Row 4: Bostonian/Bruenig Shoes, Downtown deco clip art, asbestos
DOWNLOAD recolors + fixed meshes (or just the two meshes, if you want)
As usual, do what you want with them, slap 'em on a new mesh or whatever, have a blast. Credits: Raynuss (for meshes & some recolors I turned Simlish), @franzillasims & @ajaysims & @chere-indolente for Simlish fonts, Francis Cugat, psycho/pinksoim for Sofi Pofi as a soap brand, and asbestos (Don't allow a CHEAPER and INFLAMMABLE product to puncture your desire with hesitation, it says. Which is real ad copy.)
Because I originally did this for myself, I didn't keep very detailed image credits. That makes me feel a bit bad, but that's the nature of ephemera like this. A few were recent simlifications from James Lileks' archived 1922 printing trade mag.
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coquette-club · 11 months
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
A youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922 inspired the novel. Following a move to the French Riviera, he completed a rough draft in 1924. He submitted the draft to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After his revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. The final title he desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue. Painter Francis Cugat's final cover design impressed Fitzgerald who incorporated a visual element from the art into the novel.
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staroverthemoon · 5 months
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Nadando contra la marea —
Crítica de Polar Blues (Azules polares), Antonio Leyva
Desireé Estrella
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Polar Blues, Antonio Leyva - marzo de 2014-Medio: Acrílico en hoja de lona - 50x40cm
La transición turbulenta de un niño forzado a dar un salto a la adultez, antes de estar preparado. Pero, ¿alguna vez se está completamente preparado? Y si los días sólo tienen rayos efímeros de sol, ¿en dónde se busca el calor? Antonio Leyva reflexiona estas preguntas y presenta las emociones fluctuantes de su adolescencia en esta obra, mientras que a los demás nos toca buscar nuestro reflejo en ella.
“Every rise is a day.”, dice Antonio. Toda colina es un día.
Antonio trabajó en esta pintura varias madrugadas durante dos semanas, entre los meses de febrero y marzo de 2014; entre la preparación de su ingreso universitario, el aprendizaje de vivir solo a los 16 (con su familia en otro país) y las inquietudes cotidianas de la vida y la juventud. Mientras mantenía un exterior orgulloso y firme, su única manera de liberar estas emociones era a través del arte. Polar Blues representa, entonces, los días que comenzaban en la oscuridad del negro azabache, y los sentimientos oscilantes de azul, blanco y gris que se fundían en la duración del día.
El cuadro empezó como una gráfica a lapiz en la parte inferior; los picos negros indicaban lo oscuro que empezaban sus días (16 días en total), lo difícil que sería levantarse esa mañana y cómo esa oscuridad podría seguirle a lo largo del día. El azul del cuadro, su percepción de esos días, en los que recordaba cómo se sentía, pero que acababan desdibujándose en un océano de monotonía con pequeños destellos blancos o de azul claro de algo distinto a esa nebulosa sensación.
Entra al agua y encuéntrate a ti mismo, en estas oleadas de azul que empujan contra el negro profundo, rastros de toda persona. Detrás de las olas, vemos no sólo las luchas comunes de un niño hecho hombre forzadamente, sino la separación entre un niño y su familia, vemos una batalla contra la depresión, una lucha por mantener una apariencia falsa, la cual podría desmoronarse en cualquier momento. Durante este tiempo, Antonio dudaría una y otra vez de haber tomado la decisión correcta al mudarse al extranjero a una edad tan temprana, al alejarse tanto de lo que más conocía. 
¿Estamos todos trabajando hacia la nada? ¿Estamos todos nadando contra la marea como Sísifo haciendo rodar esa piedra colina arriba?
Si lo somos, la pregunta sería: ¿qué hemos hecho para merecer este castigo? ¿Cuándo dejará de parecer un castigo? 
"¿Todos los demás tienen estas preguntas, o soy sólo yo?" No hay forma de saberlo con certeza.
Inspirado en el expresionismo abstracto que se encuentra dentro de las obras de Mark Rothko, aprendiendo de su uso del color e influenciado por el protagonismo de los colores en la portada original de El Gran Gatsby (edición de 1925), realizada por Francis Cugat (Ojos Celestes, 1924), libro que estudiaba durante esos largos días, Antonio aprovechó la oportunidad de explorar su mente, permitiéndose el tiempo para meditar con sus emociones y sentimientos, buscando sus direcciones.
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Permítete meditar tú también, dejando que las olas te bañen, te recuerden lo que sientes y se lleven con ellas los oscuros acantilados.
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memorytm · 1 year
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Celestial Eyes, Francis Cugat, Gouache Painting, 1924
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banned-library · 2 years
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THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald (New York: Scribner, 1925). Cover art by Francis Cugat.
Set on the prosperous Long Island of 1922, the novel provides a critical social history of Prohibition-era America during the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald's fictional narrative fully renders that era’s jazz music, economic prosperity, flapper culture, libertine mores, rebellious youth, and speakeasies.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was best known for depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. He also worked as a Hollywood screenplay writer. Although he achieved some success in the 1920s, Fitzgerald believed himself to be a failed writer. He became widely known after his death due in part to the Armed Services editions of his books distributed during the Second War War. Translated into 42 languages, THE GREAT GATSBY is now widely regarded as a “Great American Novel”.
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hits1000 · 2 years
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Greatest Hits of 1950 | Top Music Hits 1950 | Songs of 1950 [1950s Hits]
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aflashbak · 2 years
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― The Great Gatsby (1925) Art for the 1st cover of The Great Gatsby by Francis Cugat. https://www.instagram.com/p/CerL2upsSuZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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igotswag77 · 3 years
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#ArtfulThrawn "Celestial Chiss Eyes"
#ArtfulThrawn “Celestial Chiss Eyes”
“Celestial Eyes” is the first cover of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” in 1925 features the artwork of Francis Cugat. References Source 1Source 2
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newyorkthegoldenage · 4 years
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Ninety-five years ago today, April 10, 1925, Scribner’s published F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel. “The Great Gatsby” was the final choice for a title, beating out “Trimalchio in West Egg,” “Gold-Hatted Gatsby,” and “Under the Red White and Blue.”
The illustrator, Francis Cugat, created the design while Fitzgerald was writing the book. The author was so struck by the imagery that he worked it into the novel, and he wrote to Charles Scribner III,  "For Christ's sake, don’t give anyone that jacket you’re saving for me. I’ve written it into the book."
Today, the original book jacket draws more at auction than a first edition of the novel itself.
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vivifromloona · 2 years
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the eyes of dr. tj eckleburg, from “the great gatsby” (2013 movie) / jinsoul in “why not” / the story of “the woman of the snow” from “kwaidan”, dir. masaki kobayashi, 1965 / cover art, francis cugat, for the great gatsby, 1925, f. scott fitzgerald / vivi in “love&live” / cover of “eye in the sky”, 1957, a novel by philip k. dick / choerry in “love cherry motion / cover of “1984” by george orwell, 1949 / kim lip in “sweet crazy love”
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