Posters

 For an assignment I had to describe a Cuban poster and many others like these around.

A Cuban Naïve art piece with the starting point of any villa in the country. A cathedral with its four side openings of radial top door shape, ascending in size as you go down from the top. Iglesia de Nuestra senora de la soledad in Camaguey, Cuba. Vivid colours of hibiscus along with banana plants and palm trees lend a paradisical island touch balancing the somber blue skies in the background.

At first I just looked at them as paintings. Down the line I realised they were Posters. For the little that is there in a poster, still a reader can glean a lot from a poster.

The golden Grand Casino is lost in the shimmer of the red Italian car racing on the streets of Monaco. Behind is a blue car. The palm trees and the seaside are frozen in blue. Strangely spectators are missing. But you can imagine what it is to be there on 2 April 1934.

This painting is of one of the trouble spots in the Montecarlo circuit. The tunnel with its darkness. The cars are shown with the tunnel at their heels.

On a flight, I had seen a documentary about restoring posters. 

Two books about history of posters.

 After reading the initial chapter of this first poster book by Charles, I understood some elements of a poster. Main concept, scale.