Ghanaian Movie Poster
ガーナ手描き映画ポスター / 1980s–2000s / Style / Regional Graphics
Ghana's hand-painted movie posters on flour-sack canvas, made for mobile cinema: unconstrained imagination reinterpreting Hollywood with exaggeration and local horror into a painting style like no other.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Flour-sack canvas
- Exaggerated violence and muscle
- Free departure from the actual film
- Hand-painted title lettering
Best used for
- Screening and show announcements that sell the exaggeration as the attraction
- Product and event visuals that get their laugh from painted excess
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Titles sized letter by letter, lifted off the surface with outline and shadow
- Composition
- One chosen spectacle at the center, the rest pushed past the edge
- Material
- Enamel laid thick on sewn sacking, creases and seams left showing
- Caution
- Borrowing the exaggeration for laughs alone erases the exhibition need that produced it, and the picture ends up mocking somebody else's living.
- Further study
- mobile cinema exhibition / the poster workshops / the collector market and continuing production
Related entries
- Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster (ボリウッド手描きポスター)Same Regional Graphics lineage.Compare Ghanaian Movie Poster and Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster
- Naïve (ナイーブ)Shared effects: Play.Compare Ghanaian Movie Poster and Naïve
Often confused with
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