My Fair Lady 1964

This “My Fair Lady” movie poster by Robert Peak is like a joyful explosion of color and form. The layers of pinks, reds, yellows, and oranges, they all blend and bleed into each other, and it’s hard to tell where one thing begins and another ends. Look at Audrey Hepburn’s face, framed by the umbrella’s dark lines. It’s a portrait, but it’s also a field of color, a space where representation dissolves into pure paint. You can sense the artist building up the image, stroke by stroke. And it's loose. It reminds me a bit of Milton Glaser's work, that same sense of freedom, the feeling that the image is being discovered as it’s being made. Artists such as Peak and Glaser show us that art isn’t about perfect representation, but about the messy, beautiful, and unpredictable process of creation.