The Argentine draughtsman Guillermo Mordillo died on Mallorca. His trademark: characters with bulbous noses, the draughtsman made him one of the most famous comic in the world.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Guillermo Mordillo
On 4. August 1932-Guillermo Mordillo y Meléndez arrived in Buenos Aires as the son of Spanish immigrants to the world. Even as a child, he decided to become a signatory. With 14, he dropped out of school, then he acquired a draughtsman-diploma and illustrated at the age of 18 years of children’s books.
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A life for the bulbous nose
In search of passion
After a trip to a cartoon film designed by Mordillo as the art Director of an advertising Agency figures for greeting cards. You should be the forerunner of his famous characters, with which the Argentines in the 1960s in France, the breakthrough came.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Little people, big noses
After stops in Lima and New York Mordillo in 1963, went to Paris without speaking a word of French. The artist later explained that his characters always remained wordless. His motives know no linguistic boundaries and be understood anywhere. 1966 appeared in the magazine “Pèlerin” was his first Cartoon. Henceforth, the bulbous nose was the hallmark of the cartoonist.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Identical Properties
In addition to the lugs characters share Mordillos also other characteristics: they are nameless, without ears, wear identical hairstyles, often have wide, open eyes, and her mouth is just to see if he is open. The artist described the almost identical Exterior as “a symbol for the human being”.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Inspiration from the seven dwarves
For the bulbous nose has Mordillo by the way, even as a small Boy in the cinema to be inspired When he saw “snow white”, he was impressed by the nose of the seven dwarfs, the edge of the bed your sleeping host to approach, in such a way that he picked up the trait later in his drawings.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Large Animals
The Portfolio of the Argentine only the small figures with their large noses, but also large animals, not counting cows and giraffes are preferred. Mordillo used in his Work, water colors, ink, pastel and acrylic. About a week he took for a work time.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Often helpless
Often figures are Mordillos in seemingly hopeless situations. Put on yourself, wear you Would have these moments still. The artist’s Association with them, the tenderness, the hope and the ambition to make the Best out of the Moment so dramatically, he may be.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Colourful Environment
While Mordillo is its characters are colorless, they are surrounded, in most of his works of bold colors. The captured moments are usually reduced to the Essentials: A glance is enough to convey the atmosphere in which his heroes move.
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A life for the bulbous nose
A white sheet of paper
In 2012, Guillermo Mordillo was at the book fair in Frankfurt am Main to guests. There, he whipped out his pen and drew a Giraffe with the Mordillo-typical nose. Quickly the Work does not go to the artist but. “Nothing in my Cartoons is spontaneous. I’m working on the Millimeter for Millimeter, and I need very much time,” he says once.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Artists of world fame
Mordillos figures are known all over the world. In Germany, they were seen in Spots of the ARD television lottery. The marketing of licensed products is inexhaustible: in addition to Cartoons and books, there are calendars, posters, stuffed animals, and Puzzles of and with Mordillos figures to acquire. Its original, the artist has not been sold by the way – you were in a Bank locker.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Guillermo Mordillo
On 4. August 1932-Guillermo Mordillo y Meléndez arrived in Buenos Aires as the son of Spanish immigrants to the world. Even as a child, he decided to become a signatory. With 14, he dropped out of school, then he acquired a draughtsman-diploma and illustrated at the age of 18 years of children’s books.
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A life for the bulbous nose
In search of passion
After a trip to a cartoon film designed by Mordillo as the art Director of an advertising Agency figures for greeting cards. You should be the forerunner of his famous characters, with which the Argentines in the 1960s in France, the breakthrough came.
-
A life for the bulbous nose
Little people, big noses
After stops in Lima and New York Mordillo in 1963, went to Paris without speaking a word of French. The artist later explained that his characters always remained wordless. His motives know no linguistic boundaries and be understood anywhere. 1966 appeared in the magazine “Pèlerin” was his first Cartoon. Henceforth, the bulbous nose was the hallmark of the cartoonist.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Identical Properties
In addition to the lugs characters share Mordillos also other characteristics: they are nameless, without ears, wear identical hairstyles, often have wide, open eyes, and her mouth is just to see if he is open. The artist described the almost identical Exterior as “a symbol for the human being”.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Inspiration from the seven dwarves
For the bulbous nose has Mordillo by the way, even as a small Boy in the cinema to be inspired When he saw “snow white”, he was impressed by the nose of the seven dwarfs, the edge of the bed your sleeping host to approach, in such a way that he picked up the trait later in his drawings.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Large Animals
The Portfolio of the Argentine only the small figures with their large noses, but also large animals, not counting cows and giraffes are preferred. Mordillo used in his Work, water colors, ink, pastel and acrylic. About a week he took for a work time.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Often helpless
Often figures are Mordillos in seemingly hopeless situations. Put on yourself, wear you Would have these moments still. The artist’s Association with them, the tenderness, the hope and the ambition to make the Best out of the Moment so dramatically, he may be.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Colourful Environment
While Mordillo is its characters are colorless, they are surrounded, in most of his works of bold colors. The captured moments are usually reduced to the Essentials: A glance is enough to convey the atmosphere in which his heroes move.
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A life for the bulbous nose
A white sheet of paper
In 2012, Guillermo Mordillo was at the book fair in Frankfurt am Main to guests. There, he whipped out his pen and drew a Giraffe with the Mordillo-typical nose. Quickly the Work does not go to the artist but. “Nothing in my Cartoons is spontaneous. I’m working on the Millimeter for Millimeter, and I need very much time,” he says once.
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A life for the bulbous nose
Artists of world fame
Mordillos figures are known all over the world. In Germany, they were seen in Spots of the ARD television lottery. The marketing of licensed products is inexhaustible: in addition to Cartoons and books, there are calendars, posters, stuffed animals, and Puzzles of and with Mordillos figures to acquire. Its original, the artist has not been sold by the way – you were in a Bank locker.
Even in public life Mordillo with his drawings until well into the 1990s omnipresent was Its short humorous Clips that ran on TV and on Screens in subway stations and other public places. In addition to Cartoons and books, there is until today worldwide in calendars, posters, stuffed animals, and Puzzles of and with Mordillos figures to acquire.
Disney hooked
That Mordillo would one day be a famous cartoonist, was not foreseen, however, from the beginning, because the son of Spanish immigrants and grew up in a humble background in Buenos Aires. His father was an electrician, his mother a housekeeper. Early developed Mordillo two passions: football and Drawing. As a five year old he had seen in the cinema of Walt disney’s “snow white”film adaptation and was impressed by the bulbous nose of the seven dwarfs so that he will sign and since then haven’t stopped. He later attended a school of journalism, graduate but in Design.
Not only human figures but also animals, the characteristic bulbous nose gave Mordillo missed. Here is a Giraffe, the Mordillo signed at the book fair in Frankfurt 2012
With 18 years he began to illustrate children’s books and made his first experience with animated film. In 1955, he was an Art Director at an international advertising Agency in Lima, Peru. In Parallel, he started to draw greeting cards. These were already full with the bug-eyed, bulbous-nosed characters who would later be his trademark. At that time, Mordillo, among other things, also for the American post card manufacturer, Hallmark operates. Thanks to his good contacts, he moved in 1960 for three years to New York, where he finally, in the world famous Paramount animated film worked for studios and for Cartoon series like Popeye and Little Lulu, signed.
Speechless in Paris
In 1963, he moved finally to speak with only $ 150 in his pocket and without a word of French to Paris, where he lived until 1980 and worked. He had actually want to go to London, it was but on the way there, on the spot of the French publishing house Mic-Mac and remained. After three years in the case of Mic-Mac, he offered his pictures to stories to various periodicals. “Le Pèlerin”, “Paris Match” and “Lui” are just a few of the well-known title, in which his images appeared in stories from then on. Shortly thereafter, a Reportage magazine “Stern moved to in Germany”. His first Cartoon collection in book form of The pirate ship was called “” and was a huge success. It cartoons, posters, Puzzles, calendars, stationery, T-Shirts, sports clothing and plush animals followed. At the beginning of the 1970s, Mordillo is one of the greatest living comic book artist in the world.
Mordillo needed no words for his Cartoons
The great success of his knoll beings is probably due to the fact that you will be understood everywhere in the world – because you do not speak. To the extent that they reflect Mordillos own experiences in several foreign countries, where he had to directly in the world of work by beat, without a command of the language of the country. In advanced age he once said: “I speak five languages, but at best I speak the language of the Character, because it is understood everywhere.”
The themes of his stories are universal, they tell of love, loneliness, and togetherness. His characters are often in difficult situations, but there is always hope. Mordillo even called his sense of humour, a kind of “tenderness, which helps to overcome fear”. For his outstanding live performance Mordillo has received numerous prizes and awards. Since 1980, Mordillo has lived with his wife and children in Majorca before he moved in 1997 to Monaco.