Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henri Decaë, a superb young craftsman who rode the New Wave (The Four Hundred Blows, The Cousins) to success, bathes all this in an innocent holiday light that makes the crime seem the more hideous by contrast, like a big hairy spider crawling slowly across a travel poster...
Smooth, clear and professional, the Central Park group offers, in the words of Elizabethan Scholar Marchette Chute, "bright, swift Shakespeare, overacted, rather like a poster, as it has to be out of doors; the great thing is that it brings Shakespeare back to his original, wonderfully motley audience." And it brings him back for nothing. In six seasons, Producer Joseph Papp's Shakespeare Festival has played to more than 600,000 people, never charging admission...
...color enlivens its unconventional, simple composition. There is the stunning Cezanne of the boy in a red vest that Mr. Rockefeller owns, impressive for its fusion of linear clarity and almost overwhelming structural solidity. I was most intrigued by Picasso's 1916 still life that has none of the poster-like flatness of his other works from this period...
...announcement of the French movie version of Arthur Miller's The Crucible is dominated by two abstract blobs that on closer inspection turn out to be the gnarled claws of an old witch. A poster for a Federico Fellini film on the demoralization of youth shows youth as a bird hovering over a twisted treelike abstraction symbolizing society. A music festival is announced by a semiabstract landscape still wet with rain and crowned with lowering clouds. Across this tense scene that hovers between sun and storm is written, in an elegant 19th century hand, the signature "F. Chopin...
Poland achieved its present standing almost in spite of itself. In its early years after World War II, the new Red regime was all for more and bigger posters; but like other countries in the Communist bloc, it favored the ponderous style of social realism. The graphic artists, led by the late Tadeusz Trepkowski, insisted on the right to something they called "emotional symbolism"- a highly charged, individual style in which mood and metaphor, as well as words, would carry the message. The artists won, and the poster became the first art form to be liberated from the long night...