Viva la movie poster

We had a nice find from one of our friends not long ago and finally got around to putting them in frames. I also did a bit of research into the Cuban movie poster art to see exactly what it was about and this is what I found out.

Basically after the Cuban Revolution, movies became super cheap to go to again, so elaborate beautiful movie posters enticing people to attend the movies weren't needed as the theatres were full all the time. So, the government assembled a team of artists to create a new art style as fresh as the revolution and aesthetically opposite to the old ways, thus the Cuban movie poster art movement began….