Word: niyomsiri
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...industry is movie-poster art. In Bangkok, block-long billboards picturing grotesque snake-entwined monsters hovering over eviscerated women may cost $40,000 and take 36 artists to paint. These gargantuan murals, which used to be thrown away, are suddenly being bought up by European museums. Som-boonsuk Niyomsiri, one of Bangkok's foremost poster painters, has gone on to become Thailand's biggest film producer−under the name of Piak Poster. His latest movie, American Surplus, deals with the discrimination suffered by the bastard offspring of black American GIs stationed in Thailand during the Viet...
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