A poster is a large printed sheet meant to be seen at a distance, pairing bold lettering with an image rather than fine detail. The form grew out of chromolithography, a colour printing process using successive stone printed layers, which by the 1870s let Paris workshops turn out large runs of vivid colour cheaply. Jules Cheret pioneered the style, and the poster boom of the 1890s produced advertising, theatre and exhibition posters by artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha, whose Art Nouveau line defined the period. A pre 1930 archive under this heading holds these commercial lithographs rather than prints made in small fine art editions.
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A poster is a large printed sheet meant to be seen at a distance, pairing bold lettering with an image rather than fine detail. The form grew out of chromolithography, a colour printing process using successive stone printed layers, which by the 1870s let Paris workshops turn out large runs of vivid colour cheaply. Jules Cheret pioneered the style, and the poster boom of the 1890s produced advertising, theatre and exhibition posters by artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha, whose Art Nouveau line defined the period. A pre 1930 archive under this heading holds these commercial lithographs rather than prints made in small fine art editions.
The most represented artists here are Anonymous (5,634), U.S. Information Agency (581), Strobridge & Co. Lith. (352).
By movement: Art Nouveau (8,344), Art Deco (3,443), Expressionism (2,351).
By orientation: 2,946 landscape, 19,269 portrait, 239 square.
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