…This [of the Spanish painters] was the method I used for nearly a year and a half, around 1952-1954.With one difference. They painted the subject over with a solid color, while I used a variety of color tones on the surface so that the air-brush paint would fall on, so to speak, “prepared ground” Willy-nilly, I married the two techniques. That of the Athens School with the Air-brush technique of the Spanish. This combination produced a new result, of novel aesthetic interest, that corresponded better to the needs of the plain and big surface area of the Giant poster… (see G. Vakirtzis in Giant poters of Cinema by George Vakirtzis, p. 52).

During his stay in Barcelona (1952-1953), G.V. was introduced to the pistolet technique, used by Catalan painters in the Giant posters decorating the cinema façades in Rambla area…