Ghana Hand Painted Movie Posters
A movie poster for predator painted by artist stoger for royal gate video club in ashaiman a town near accra.
Ghana hand painted movie posters. Hand painted movie posters from ghana kaushik patowary jun 3 2012 0 comments when the first video cassette recorders reached ghana in the 1980s and gradually a rental structure arose for homegrown movies in the urbane centers of accra and kumasi a host of mobile movie theaters started taking shape. In the late 1980s mobile cinema businesses were burgeoning in ghana bringing film screenings to villages and rural areas without theatres or electricity. These makeshift video clubs usually.
The unexpected art of ghana s hand painted movie posters prev. A wholesale retail exporters of various kinds of african handmade artifacts musical instruments hand painted movie posters used in cinemas and video clubs in ghana artworks asante hand woven kente stoles kente bags trade beads and batik tie dye. Demand for video club posters in ghana started dying out in the mid 2000s when home viewing became more widespread and.
The unexpected art of ghana s hand painted movie posters november 9 2020 in the late 1980s mobile cinema businesses were burgeoning in ghana bringing film screenings to villages and rural areas without theaters or electricity these. 9 november 2020 7 03pm. Demand for video club posters in ghana started dying out in the mid 2000s when home viewing.
Our goal is to archive educate exhibit and promote the art of hand painted movie posters from ghana the best thing is that the team supports current artists in ghana still working in the. The unexpected art of ghana s hand painted movie posters. Scroll through to see more hand painted posters from ghana.
While these posters haven t been a hot commodity since 1998 audiences all over the world continue to appreciate the bold creativity of these one of a kind posters.
