Thursday, February 17, 2005
Hand-painted movie posters from rural Russia
This small gallery of hand-painted rural Russian movie posters is fascinating (pictured here, poster for "50 First Dates"). Here's the story behind them: "the posters were made in response to a nascent form of mobile cinema - entrepreneurs brought the latest foreign videos and films to Russia's rural hinterlands where they set up make-shift movie houses and they hired 'professionals' to promote the films with outrageous naive paintings. some theaters even had in-house artists to keep up with the torrent of releases."
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(via We Make Money Not Art)
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