Thread: Tobacco cards: what was the original art medium?
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Old 08-25-2006, 07:04 PM
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Default Tobacco cards: what was the original art medium?
Posted By: davidcycleback

The black parts of Wagner and his uniform are reproductions of a photo. The colors are basically 'colorized' giving it the comic book look. Also, lihtography was not as good back then at reproducing photos, contributng to the low resolution look.

As the below 1960s Warhol shows, the mere act of adding bright colors can make a photo-realistic image look cartoon like.

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