African Ghana Movie Poster Painting - Return of the Snake Girl

Description: This unique and one-of-a-kind painting is a must-have for any fan of African movies and ethnographic art. The title, "Return of the Snake Girl," features the iconic character from the Nigerian movie franchise. Produced in 2014 by an unknown artist from Ghana, the painting is rendered with oil paints on a large flour sack canvas. It measures 41" x 64", and is unusually well painted for the genre. Ghanaian film posters are highly collectible and have been featured in museums and galleries in Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Chicago, and across Europe. A bit of background on this art form: In the 1980s, thanks to the invention of video recorders, the first mobile cinemas arrived in Ghana. Distributers would travel from village to village equipped with a selection of movie cassettes, a TV set, a VCR, and a generator. To draw attention to their performances they commissioned artists to create large painted posters. They were usually painted with oil paints on stitched-together flour sacks. Each artist was allowed to create their own design, drawing from the cassette covers, movie scenes and their own imaginations, therefore each poster is unique. The time period from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s is considered the Golden Age of Ghanaian Movie Posters. The arrival of digital print technology around the year 2000 and the advent of buying or streaming their own movies at home brought this unique art form to an end. Therefore very few were created after these dates, making this painting very rare. Please contact me before you buy if you have any questions.

Price: 450 USD

Location: Austin, Texas

End Time: 2024-09-20T23:00:01.000Z

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