Popular Prints
民衆版画
Dictionary entry
- Lubok 17th–19th century / Style
Russia's popular print: thick outlines, flat hand-coloring, image and text sharing the sheet, circulating sacred stories and satire cheaply. The avant-garde rediscovered it in the 20th century as Russia's native form.
- Épinal Print 1796– / Style
The popular prints mass-produced by Pellerin of Épinal from 1796: clear outlines and stencil color telling stories, armies and morals — so defining of popular vision that 'image d'Épinal' came to mean a rosy cliché.
- Posada's Calaveras 1880s–1913 / Style
The skeleton satires Posada engraved for Mexican broadsides: dressed-up calaveras laughing at class and death alike. La Catrina became a national icon of the Day of the Dead and Mexican graphics.
- Đông Hồ Prints 17th century– / Style
The woodblock prints of Vietnam's Đông Hồ village: printed with natural pigments on dó paper coated with ground seashell, New Year pictures like 'The Rat's Wedding' carrying village philosophy in satire and auspice.
- Nianhua Song dynasty– / Style
China's New Year woodblock prints pasted on doors and walls: door gods, wealth gods and opera scenes in saturated color, with regional styles like Yangliuqing and Taohuawu forming a centuries-long visual language — the iconographic mother of socialist posters.
- Indian Calendar Art 1894– / Style
The mass-printed gods begun at Ravi Varma's press: oil-painted mythology delivered to homes as oleographs, still printed today as bazaar art shaping India's visual everyday.