Word: posterize
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...most top fine artists would work haughtily with a refuse any commercial offer or to paint any exhortatory message in it; in Poland, an easier ethic and a powerful state need for propaganda prevail. Thus the common poster, which may proclaim no loftier message than the ordinary American billboard, may bear the signature of a top artist. On display last week in the West German city of Essen were 124 posters done between 1951 and 1959 in Poland. The show has traveled all over West Germany, convincing the Germans that in this art form Poland stands as high...
Poland achieved its present standing almost in spite of itself. In its early years after World War II, the new Red regime was all for more and bigger posters; but like other countries in the Communist bloc, it favored the ponderous style of social realism. The graphic artists, led by the late Tadeusz Trepkowski, insisted on the right to something they called "emotional symbolism"- a highly charged, individual style in which mood and metaphor, as well as words, would carry the message. The artists won, and the poster became the first art form to be liberated from the long night...
...boys in On the Town are sailors in New York for a twenty-four hour leave, and the girl is Miss Turnstiles for the month. One tar wants to date the subway queen after seeing her picture on a poster, and the show takes off from there...
Posed, rhetorical scenes add to this poster effect, although nowhere does the rhetoric stop us from seeing: faces listen as a loudspeaker intones news of defeats, and statue mourners stand stiffly around the bodies of the dead in a train wreck...
Everywhere, director Grigori Chukrai presents the faces and machines of a people at war with truth and with power. Part of the power is gained through a considerable sacrifice in subtlety. All the characters in the film are like figures on a poster: you know almost everything about them at first sight...