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Renato Casaro
Renato Casaro (2016)
Born (1935-10-26) October 26, 1935 (age 89)
Treviso, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forPoster art, Illustration
AwardsCiak d'oro, 1988
Ciak d'oro, 1991
Jupiter Award, 1992

Renato Casaro (born Oct 26, 1935 in Treviso, Italy) is an Italian artist known for his movie posters,[1] which include films like My Name Is Nobody, Quadrophenia, Conan the Barbarian, Tenebrae, Octopussy, Never Say Never Again, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Red Sonja and Flesh and Blood. He is considered one of the most important, influential and innovative Italian's film poster artists. He has made hundreds of works dedicated to the cinema, becoming very popular abroad.[2] He has also painted calendars, collectibles, book covers and album covers.[3]

Early life

Renato Casaro was born on October 26, 1935, in Treviso Italy.[4] His early interest in posters reportedly began with movie advertisements in the cinema where he used to go every day to see if they were changing the posters and when they were he would ask if could take them home where he try to reproduce it.[5] In 1953 Renato at age 18, found a job as a staff artist at Studio Favalli a famous design and art studio of Rome film industry. Always in Rome, at age 21, Renato open his own art studio.[6]

Career

Dino de Laurentiis hired Casaro in 1965 to design the poster images for the film The Bible: In the Beginning.... After that Casaro worked on many films with De Laurentiis, like Flash Gordon, Dune and Conan the Barbarian. In the same time Casaro continued his business, producing posters for different directors like Sergio Leone, Claude Lelouch, Francis Ford Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luc Besson, Franco Zeffirelli and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.[7]

Selected International Movie Posters

Published collections

  • Renato Casaro: Africa ISBN 978-3-7888-1412-0
  • Renato Casaro - Movie Art ISBN 3-9806443-0-8
  • Renato Casaro - Painted Movies ISBN 3-9801878-1-0
  • African Memories ISBN 978-3-87314-477-4

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Wine Country Film Festival - 1992 Outdoor screenings". wcff.us. Retrieved Jul 3, 2016.
  2. ^ Hans-Martin Heider. Renato Casaro - from Hollywood to Africa. Heider, 2003, p. 175. ISBN 9783873143890.
  3. ^ "Renato Casaro Discography at Discogs". discogs.com. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  4. ^ Eugenio Manzato. L'Italia al cinema: manifesti dalla Raccolta Salce 1911-1961 (in Italian). Marsilio, 1992. ISBN 9788831756129.
  5. ^ "An interview with Renato Casaro". filmonpaper.com. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  6. ^ "Renato Casaro". posterguide.org. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  7. ^ "Kinoplakate von Renato Casaro". www.filmposter-archiv.de. Retrieved 2016-05-21.

Interviews