Ghana Movie poster African cinema hand painting flour sack Art D. WAR

Description: Home Help Add to Favourites Store Links Store Home Auctions New Arrivals Ending Soon Feedback About Us Store Home Auctions New Arrivals Ending Soon Feedback About Us 100% AUTHENTIC ITEMS WE SHIP WORLDWIDE Categories Beads African Jewelry Ghana Movie Posters Kente and other African Cloths Asafo Frankaa Flags Tuareg Art and Crafts Adinkra Ghana Shop Signs Paintings Ashanti / Akan Goldweights Old Brass and Stone Bracelets African Wooden Stools Store Newsletter Add my Shop to your Favorites and receive my email newsletters about new items and special promotions!Subscribe Secure Payments Safe & Fast Ghana Movie poster African cinema hand painting flour sack Art D. WAR DESCRIPTION D. WARBeautiful authentic hand-painted movie poster from Ghana, West Africa.DETAILS FOR THIS FILM AND POSTER: Film: D. WAR HORROR Poster: Hand Painted in Ghana for NAME Video Club. Art size: 63 1/4" x 42 1/2" (160 cm x 108 cm).Condition: In very good condition, in some places the paint is off and some signs of wear in the art work due to usage. Please see photos.FREE DHL SHIPPING TO ALL OVER THE WORLD 2-5 WORKING DAYS DELIVERY! This is not a print ! its a real oil paint ! A unique piece of Authentic African Art !Hand painted Ghana movie posters are unique pieces of Authentic African Art!These types of posters were exhibited many times in museums all over the world and are highly collectible! Here is a little about the origin of this form of art. With the arrival of video and video cassettes during the 1980s in Ghana (West Africa), a small-scale film distribution mobile Cinema was created.The local operators were equipped with a television, a video and occasionally with a portable generator. They were moving from place to place showing their films - sometimes inside social clubs or houses and during the night in the open air! To gather as many spectators as possible, they had to advertise their business and they needed huge posters. Because of this, a new form of art was born. Talented artists after viewing the films were creating large-size posters using oil paint on canvas, but because of the unavailability and high cost of the imported canvases, the artists were using used flour sacks sewn together.The artist had the freedom to add and change scenes seen, or not seen, in the movie to make the poster more attractive. This is the reason that this hand-painted posters are considered more ART than the usual posters. Each of them is UNIQUE and except for the film content, they express the vision of the artist himself.Because of the poster's "hard" life (transported folded or rolled, displayed under the rain and sun for several months during their rounds all over Ghana) most of the posters were destroyed and the surviving ones have been damaged at the ends of the canvas, peelings, cracking, and other signs of wear.By the mid-1990s, since television and video were more widely available in Ghana, the popularity of the mobile Cinema business declined and almost collapsed.The profits of the mobile Cinema operators decreased, and they were not able to afford the "expensive" artists to paint their posters anymore. At present days they are using photocopy paper posters in order to cut cost and survive. For more information concerning this type of art please read: "Extreme Canvas: Hand-Painted Movie Poster from Ghana" with over 350 colorful examples of these unique posters. Shipping Returns Payment About Us We ship by Registered Air Mail anywhere in the world. Delivery time to Europe is 7-14 working days. Delivery time to the USA and the rest of the World is 14-21 working days. DHL option available for faster delivery (2-5 working days) to all over the world. Please BEFORE PAYMENT contact us for a quote. FREE upgrade to DHL for orders over $200. You can combine your purchases for up to 2 weeks! We combine shipping with different items, please contact us for a quote. If for any reason you are not happy with your purchase, please let us know within 30 days of receiving the parcel. We will provide you with return shipping instructions and will refund you the cost of the items as soon as we receive the return parcel. Please note: BUYER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL SHIPPING CHARGES. We Accept eBay Payments! We are exporters and retailers of African Art with offices in Greece where we stock and ship all our items and Ghana (West Africa) where we do all our purchases. Selling Authentic African Art on eBay as ETHNIC*ART*GALLERY since 2003 and Trade Beads as TRIBALGH since 2001. QUICK LINKS New Arrivals Ending Soon Feedback About Us Newsletter Sign up to our newsletter for special dealsSUBMIT We Accept Tani Logics UK Copyright © 2018. All rights reserved. Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution

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