The Beggarstaffs (Sir William Nicholson, English, 1872-1949 & James Pryde, Scottish, 1866-1941) Under a pseudonym, they virtually created the modern poster with clear outlines and large areas of flat color.
What's the Beggarstaffs' secret?
1- cut and paste (yes, scissors and colored paper)
2- flat treatment of form, silhouette of
3- stylized simplification of shape,
4- Japanese-like handling of perspective (with no influence of Toulouse Lautrec and of the Nabis),