In decades past high-end illustrators were needed to illustrate those posters for Hollywood movies and among those artists we find some of the stature of Struzan or Richard Amsel.
These have taken care of illustrate those dreams and stories, in which we also find John Alvin as the one who has brought some high-quality posters to meet the replicant of Blade Runner or that alien who stated "ET, my house, telephone."
Gremlins, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Blade Runner, The Color Purple, ET the Extra-Terrestrial, The Goonies, The Little Mermaid, Cape Fear or Young Frankenstein are some of the countless films he has illustrated and that have passed through our retina when we have gone at some point to see them at the movies years ago.
If you look back on all the films you have portrayed, you can really marvel at how an illustrator artist, who surely did not know his name has been so important to accentuate the impression who got those movies in our lives, or what is called as popular culture.
More than 25 years on his back so that in 2008 he left us at the age of 59. A way to make a fond memory for the importance of your brush and your artistic work.
Alvin's work found in various art galleries in the United States where his pieces, drawings and limited editions of that spectacular work in which the word "cinema" resonates remarkably can be seen.
With this I also try to emphasize that behind those famous actors and directors, there is a production team that are the ones that allow that factory of dreams that is Hollywood to continue to inspire wherever its films are released and seen.
Another illustrator to whom much is owed, but in the Star Wars universe, McQuarrie.