5 天之前 · In Ghana, dozens of artists have made their mark creating hand-painted movie posters that blend exaggerated horror with slapstick comedy. This unique art form began in the 1980s during Ghana's ...

2025年1月15日 · During the 1980s and 1990s, Ghanaian artists created vibrant hand-painted movie posters to promote Hollywood blockbuster films. These posters served as promotional material for mobile cinemas that ...

Below is just the tip of the iceberg of Ghanian movie posters. From strange, surreal Star Wars posters prominently featuring background characters to violent interpretations of the events of Paddington, enjoy this collection of unique movie posters that will have you wondering if you misremembered some key scenes.

In Ghana, dozens of artists have made their mark creating hand-painted movie posters that blend exaggerated horror with slapstick comedy. This unique art form began in the 1980s during Ghana's mobile cinema boom, giving artists freedom to reimagine blockbuster films in their own style. With the radio on and a paintbrush in hand, Nana Agyq

A Ghanaian film poster is a film poster hand-painted in Ghana used to advertise films produced in Ghana as well as world cinema. Ghanaian film posters, particularly hand-painted posters from the 1980s and 1990s, have become noted for their imaginative and unique artistry.

2024年11月14日 · The Deadly Prey gallery in Chicago have been showcasing the work of Ghanaian artists for years, with an Instagram account dedicated to the colour and inventive posters that reimagine scenes from films like The Godfather, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Mrs Doubtfire, with cartoonish and playful style that injects new life into the world of movie ...

Original Hand-painted Ghanaian Movie Posters, Prints & more. We’ve been working with the great Ghanaian artist Mr. Nana Agyq for 12 years now. He’s one of the 10 artists in Ghana we’re so fortunate to be partnered with. Here he is outside his studio in Accra 🇬🇭 His version of Stop Making Sense happens to be our most popular print!

2020年5月14日 · Three long years have passed since the heroes of Ghana’s golden age of movie poster painting—a time in the ‘80s and ‘90s when entrepreneurs roamed the West African country with VHS players and generators and commissioned wonderful canvas paintings as advertisements—were featured in Bowers Museum’s the cult hit exhibition, Reel Art ...

We are dedicated to the preservation of hand-painted Ghanian movie posters, while supporting the artists currently painting these movie posters in Ghana. We work with 10 artists in Ghana directly while housing and archiving a unique collection of over 1000 posters spanning a …

2020年4月28日 · These incredible Ghanaian movie posters are like nothing you've ever seen, and we talked to the man who's created a gallery devoted to them.