Ghana Movie Posters Et
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Ghana movie posters et. Médiathèque du quai branly et salon de lecture jacques kerchache. How ghana s gory gaudy movie posters became high art in the 80s and 90s artists were charged with making films seem as lurid and enticing as possible regardless of plot. In order to drum up business for local movie theaters in africa most notably in ghana theater owners would commission local artists to paint movie posters.
The unexpected art of ghana s hand painted movie posters. These particular versions are from ghana and they are amazing. See more ideas about film posters movie posters ghanaian.
9 november 2020 7 03pm. When frank armah began painting posters for ghanaian movie theaters in the mid 1980s he was given a clear mandate. Jan 19 2019 explore deadcavalier s board ghanaian film posters followed by 112 people on pinterest.
Apparently this is a global phenomenon and countless local interpretations of movie posters exist worldwide. The posters are in effect a visual time capsule and reveal much about ghana and west africa as the 20th century ticked over into the 21st. The only restriction was the size of the canvases.
See more ideas about film posters movie posters ghanaian. During the military dictatorships of the 1970s and 80s restrictive laws cut off the importation of the large scale offset printing presses usually used for poster making everywhere else in the world. Demand for video club posters in ghana started dying out in the mid 2000s when home viewing.
Many of the same artists from ghana s former mobile cinema continue to paint movie posters as art with deadly prey gallery on a commission basis to a growing worldwide audience. Some of the nollywood and ghanaian film posters such. In 2015 chankin opened deadly prey gallery a chicago based studio that works with ghanaian artists prices for commissioned posters vary from 300 to 600 and the most requested are from the big.
The mobile cinemas needed a way to promote their offerings but didn t have the original movie posters or a way to print alternatives because at.
