Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most top fine artists would work haughtily with a refuse any commercial offer or to paint any exhortatory message in it; in Poland, an easier ethic and a powerful state need for propaganda prevail. Thus the common poster, which may proclaim no loftier message than the ordinary American billboard, may bear the signature of a top artist. On display last week in the West German city of Essen were 124 posters done between 1951 and 1959 in Poland. The show has traveled all over West Germany, convincing the Germans that in this art form Poland stands as high...
...boys in On the Town are sailors in New York for a twenty-four hour leave, and the girl is Miss Turnstiles for the month. One tar wants to date the subway queen after seeing her picture on a poster, and the show takes off from there...
Posed, rhetorical scenes add to this poster effect, although nowhere does the rhetoric stop us from seeing: faces listen as a loudspeaker intones news of defeats, and statue mourners stand stiffly around the bodies of the dead in a train wreck...
Everywhere, director Grigori Chukrai presents the faces and machines of a people at war with truth and with power. Part of the power is gained through a considerable sacrifice in subtlety. All the characters in the film are like figures on a poster: you know almost everything about them at first sight...
...Hell. World War I aggravated his bitterness. He was twice invalided, was finally sent to a hospital for the shell-shocked and insane. When he got out he joined the ranks of the Dadaists, once marched in a parade wearing a death's-head and carrying a poster saying "Dada, Dada, über alles." The Dadaists were only a minor influence on his art. He admired the way the Italian futurists portrayed tension and movement. He borrowed a little from the cubists and from Paul Klee, who was so intrigued by the art of children and lunatics...