Posters

This art medium comes from the ancient practice of “posting” messages in public places. Used for advertising or other communication needs, posters were designed to communicate quickly and graphically.

Posters are still used for that purpose today – movies, concerts, plays and other public events all are promoted with posters. However, posters also are produced strictly as decorative art, usually inexpensively on inexpensive paper.

Posters almost always photomechanical reproductions; there is always graphic type on a poster, which is the primary difference between these and open edition reproductions. Many early poster artists have become very famous.