Just over 3 weeks ago, precisely on July 21, 2018, The legendary poster artist of thousands of Hollywood movies left us, Macario Gómez Quibus, or also known as Mac. Mac wowed Hollywood with a particular style perfect for more than 4.000 works.
Movies like 'Doctor Zhivago', 'Psychosis' or 'The ten commandments', are part of his extensive repertoire of works that thanks to his particular style led him to fame and to be part of the Hollywood film industry. Mac's style, with great expressive force, allowed him to work for all the American distributors of the time.
Mac was born in Reus (Tarragona) in 1926. From humble familySince 2 years he began to draw when he was admitted to the House of Charity in the Catalan city. Then he went to the School of Fine Arts in 1935, so that at the age of 20 he resumed his studies and began to work for the graphic studio Domínguez. It was there that he began to decorate the facades of cinemas.
With 'Ivanhoe', when drawing the image of the film under the command of the advertising design studio Esquema, when received congratulations from Metro Goldwyn Mayer. He went on to be in charge of all the material for the Tandem Films distributor and became popular as a poster artist under the pseudonym Mac.
It was with the largest poster of 'The Ten Commandments' with which he began his spectacular career so that he himself Charlton Heston would like to meet you in person. Thousands of films bear his name on the poster, which has given him his special talent and that expressive force that each one carried.
'Rio Grande', 'The three musketeers', 'Robin of the Woods', 'Death had a price' or 'Moulin Rouge' It is among some of the films, such as those cited above, that elevated the career of this great poster artist named Mac.
