Congrès International des clubs de publicité, Paris 3.4.5. Oct 1955 poster (1955) by Bernard Villemot references Monument 19 from La Venta documented that year in 1955?

 

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Bernard Villemot 

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Monument 19, La Venta, Tabasco. "Seated man in serpent" (1200 - 400BC, discovered in 1955)

 

 

a.ii) Bernard Villemot's Paris 3.4.5 - Oct. 1955- VI Congrès International des clubs de publicité

 

b) Monument 19 from La Venta documented that year in 1955

 

 

 

c.i) The two side by side with Monument 19 reversed?

Image of the sculpture in reverse next to the poster. 

The serpent head is transformed into the hat and the helmet of the rider is transformed into an eye. 

With that, there are the various lines and patterns, making up the man's clothes, details on the serpents body and lines on the canopy that include crosses that might have led Bernard Villemot to think about these being something that he could transform into flags from across the world.

 

 

c.ii) Canopy transformed into upper part of the letter P covered in flags

 

 

 

c.ii) Arm of the rider is transformed into the the lower part of the eye, while the helmet becomes the left end of the eye.

 

 

 

c.iii) The body of the man sitting on the serpents tale with three segments of a rattle at the end become flags on the middle part of the P

 

 

c.iv) Long neck of the serpent becoms the part of the P's curve carrying over to the other side of the main trunk of the P

 

 

c.v) The serpent head is transformed into the hat