Collection: Ghana Movie Posters - Hand Painted on Recycled Canvas (Used Flour Sacks)
Hand painted Ghana movie posters are unique pieces of authentic African art!
These types of posters were exhibited many times in museums all over the world and are highly collectible!
Here is some information about the origin of this art form.
With the arrival of video and video cassettes in Ghana (West Africa) during 1980s, a small-scale film distribution mobile cinema was created.
The local operators were equipped with a television, a video player and, occasionally, with a portable generator.
They were moving from place to place showing their films - sometimes inside social clubs or houses and at night in open air!
In order to gather as many spectators as possible, they had to advertise their business and they needed huge posters. Because of this, a new art form was born.
After viewing the films, talented artists created large size posters using oil paint on used cotton flour sacks sewn together.
In order to make the poster more attractive, the artist had the freedom to add and change scenes seen, or not seen, in the movie. Each of them is UNIQUE because they express the vision of the artist himself.
As a result of the posters "hard" life (i.e., transported folded or rolled, displayed under the rain and sun for several months during their rounds all over Ghana), most were destroyed and the surviving ones are damaged at the ends of the canvas, are peeling, cracking and/or show other signs of wear.
By the mid-1990s, since television and video were more widely available in Ghana, the popularity of the mobile cinema business declined and almost collapsed.
The profits of the mobile cinema operators decreased, and they could no longer afford the "expensive" artists to paint their posters.
Currently, they use photocopy paper posters in order to cut cost and survive.
For more information concerning this type of art, please read Extreme Canvas: Hand-Painted Movie Poster from Ghana with over 350 colorful examples of these unique posters.
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Cinema Movie poster Ghana African hand painted flour sack canvas Art WITH GOD
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Blood Heat Movie - Authentic Ghanaian Hand-Painted Poster
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Time Cop 2: Vibrant Ghana Hand-Painted Poster - Action & Art Merge
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Ghana Movie poster African Cinema oil painting EAGLE VS SILVER FOX
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Ghana Movie poster African cinema folk art hand painted WHERE OCEAN TOUCH
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Authentic "AMERICAN NINJA 4" Ghana Hand-Painted Movie Poster | Collectible Art
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TROY Epic Battle Hand-Painted Ghana Movie Poster 62"x 42"
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Ghana Cinema Movie poster African paint hand painting painted Art NAKED WEAPON
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Ghana Hand painted Movie poster African cinema Wall Art MASTER OF SHAOLIN
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African Ghana Movie poster cinema folk art hand painted DRAGON TIGER GATE
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Movie poster Ghana hand painting African Folk Art cinema Magnificent Warriors
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Movie Cinema poster African folk outsider art hand painted Flour sack Cyborg Cop
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Cinema movie poster African hand painting Ghana BEYOND SHERWOOD FOREST
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African movie poster Ghana wall art hand painted WOLFHOUND
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Ghana African Movie poster cinema hand painted Boxer from Shantung
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Ghana Movie Cinema poster African Art oil hand paint flour sack SPIRITED KILLER
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African Art Ghana Movie Cinema poster hand oil painting flour sack ONG BAK 3
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Ghana Hand painted Movie poster African cinema Art JUJU RETURN OF ONE MORE MAN 3
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Ghana Movie hand painted poster African Art cinema wall Art US SEAL 2
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Movie poster African hand painted canvas Ghana SINS OF THE FATHER
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Cinema Movie Ghana poster African hand painted canvas Last Burial 2
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Cinema Movie poster Ghana African hand painted sack canvas Art SIGNS OF END TIME
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Cinema Movie poster African oil Art painting hand painted Ghana MISSION DYNAMO
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Movie Cinema poster African hand painted oil flour sack canvas art BREAK AWAY
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