International Festival of the Arts, Reform Theater presents "Your Feed is Coming, You Mangy Chickens!" by Emilio Carballido with music by Rafael Elizondo, Mexico City Cultural Olympics

Michael C. Gross

Department of Publications and Urban Design, Organizing Committee of the XIX Olympiad

1968

A lithograph poster by Michael C. Gross that advertises a 1968 Mexico City theatrical presentation and arts festival, using a stark ink-and-wash image to set a darkly comic, theatrical mood.

What hits you first is the large, looser-than-photographic ink drawing of two ghostly figures crammed into a coffin-like cart, their forms bleeding into a long, black shadow that drifts across the page while the program information sits as a spare column of type at the right.

The poster shows how 1960s graphic design turned promotional images into expressive, metaphorical artworks—merging illustration, theatre, and festival branding to internationalize contemporary cultural events and visual languages.

Palette

Exhibitions

Spanish and U.S. Government Posters

1937

Committed to Print

1988

Mexican Art

1978

Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art

1940