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El Arte Cubano

Poster
1987 (made)
Artist/Maker
Paddington Printshop (printer)
Phillips, John (designer)
Place of origin
London (made)

Portrait poster promoting an exhibition of Cuban Silkscreen painting. The poster features several illustrations, showing a mountain scene from top to bottom. The top is the sky, with illustrated birds creating a border. It then moves to green grasslands, and illustrated animals are shown fighting. Below this another border is created, with illustrations of dog-like animals. Below this is a place blue background, with white text about the organisations of El Arte Cubano. There are also prints of Che Guevara.

Object details

Categories
Posters
Prints
Advertising
Object type
Poster
TitleEl Arte Cubano (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Printing, paper, plastic laminate.
Plastic Laminate
Paper
Printing
Brief description
Poster, designed by John Phillips for the Paddington Printshop, London, 1987.
Physical description
Portrait poster promoting an exhibition of Cuban Silkscreen painting. The poster features several illustrations, showing a mountain scene from top to bottom. The top is the sky, with illustrated birds creating a border. It then moves to green grasslands, and illustrated animals are shown fighting. Below this another border is created, with illustrations of dog-like animals. Below this is a place blue background, with white text about the organisations of El Arte Cubano. There are also prints of Che Guevara.
Dimensions
  • Height: 80.1cm
  • Width: 53.8cm
Dimensions include plastic laminate.
Marks and inscriptions
  • CUBAN ART PAINTING POSTERS TEXTILES AND PRINTS / POLITICS HISTORY AND POLICY AND ART WITH A SMILE
  • EL ARTE CUBANO
    Translation
    The art of Cuba
  • Cuban art blends traditional and modern influences from many cultures, both / western and non-western in origin. Cuban artists work across a variety of media / linking painting, poster and print making with textile and fashion design. This / experience will be of interest to people in the U.K. who work in fine art, / community art, black art, fabrics and fashion, art administration and policy / making and art history.
  • Aldo Menendez Gonzalez director of the Silkscreen Workshop 'Rene Portarrero / will be visiting in the U.K. from May 13 to June 3. / Also would like to develop contacts and trading links between arts workers here / and in Cuba. He will be presenting a series of talks on the arts in Cuba. If you / would like to attend any of these talks, or wish to invite Aldo to visit your project please contact one of the numbers below.
Credit line
Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop.
Object history
Poster featured in the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is Easy...?'
Place depicted
Cuba
Association
Cuba
Bibliographic reference
From the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is Easy...?'
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.598-2013

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Record createdNovember 20, 2013
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1275041/el-arte-cubano-poster-phillips-john/
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