African kente and textiles. Brass / Bronze / Lost wax. Oil paint / Ghana Signboards. Wood and other Artifacts. Art Movie posters Ghana. Tuareg Art and Crafts. Ghana Movie poster African cinema folk wall art hand painted Snake Island. SNAKE ISLAND Beautiful authentic hand-painted movie poster from Ghana, West Africa. DETAILS FOR THIS FILM AND POSTER: Film: SNAKE ISLAND HORROR Poster: Hand Painted in Ghana by H. K MATHIELS for ROYAL Video Club. Art size: 52″ x 41 3/4″ (132 cm x 106 cm). Condition: In very good condition, in some places the paint is off and some signs of wear in the art work due to usage. This is not a print! Its a real oil paint! A real piece of Authentic African Art! This type of posters are highly collectible and many times displayed in Museums all over the world! With the arrival of video and video cassettes during 1980s In Ghana (West Africa) a small-scale film distribution / mobile Cinema was created. This small size mobile “Cinema” operators were equipped with a television a Video and sometimes with a small portable generator and were moving from town to town from village to village operating and showing their films! (During the day inside social clubs or houses and during the night in the open air). In order to attract more customers and in order to advertise their mission and business the need of huge posters was created and born. Talented artists after viewing the film were creating large size posters using oil paint on canvas (Because of unavailability and high cost of imported canvas , The artists were using used flour sacks sewn together). The artist had the freedom to add or change scenes seen or not seen in the film in order to make the poster more attractive (This is the reason that this hand painted posters are more interesting as ART than the normal posters since each of this hand painted poster is UNIQUE and except the film content it also express the artist himself). These posters were rolled or folded and easy to move around with the mobile Cinema. Because of the posters ” hard ” life (Folded or rolled, under the rain and sun and display for several months during their rounds all over Ghana) most of the surviving posters have damage at the end of the canvas, peelings, cracking and other damages. By the mid 1990s the mobile Cinema business declined and almost collapsed since television and video was more widely available in Ghana. The profits of the mobile Cinema operators were also reduced and they were not able to afford the “expensive” talented artists to paint their posters anymore. At the present days they have to rely with Photocopy paper posters in order to survive and reduce cost. For more information concerning this type of art please read: ” Extreme Canvas: Hand-Painted Movie Poster from Ghana ” with over 350 colorful examples of this unique posters. Sign up to our newsletter for special deals. Powered by SixBit’s eCommerce Solution. The item “Ghana Movie poster African cinema folk wall art hand painted Snake Island” is in sale since Tuesday, March 5, 2019. This item is in the category “Art\Art Posters”. The seller is “ethnic*art*gallery” and is located in GR. This item can be shipped worldwide.