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Introduction

Posters are a popular art form that typically feature images and text printed on paper and are often mass-produced for public display on walls and billboards. The accessibility of a wide audience has drawn many artists to create posters, enabling them to serve various social purposes. In the modern era, the incorporation of photography, typography, influences from art movements like Bauhaus and Constructivism, avant-garde concepts, modernism, and the professional advertising industry have all played a role in shaping the evolution of posters as a powerful means of artistic expression.

M+ Collections

2016.188

Yokoo Tadanori

Takasaki Art Center College

1997

2018.34

Miroslav Sasek

Poster, 'Fabulous Hong Kong', Hong Kong Tourist Association

1965-1968

2019.115

Yamaguchi Harumi

Spring Loves Me

1982

2018.837

Fukuda Shigeo

Poster, 'landscape 43'

1980–2000

2018.911

Nagai Kazumasa

Poster, 'Human Rights - Living Together', International images for Human and Citizen Rights, ARTIS 89

1988

M+ Collection Archives

CA80/5

Freeman Lau (Designer)

Poster, 'Coronation of Gods', HKDA Design 1996 Exhibition, Hong Kong Designers Association, Hong Kong

October 1996

CA20/1/1/11

Nam June Paik (Subject), Charlotte Moorman (Subject)

Poster, Eleventh Annual New York Avant Garde Festival 

1974

CA19/1/1

WORK (Design Firm), Theseus Chan (Designer)

Poster, WERK: Exhibition, 2002

2002

CA4/1/2

MAD Architects (Architectural Firm)

Poster, 'MAD in China: a futuristic practice and place', Venice Architecture Biennale (2006), Venice, Italy

September 2006

CA64/11/5

In-Gear Film Production Company (Production Company), Kar Wai Wong (Film Director)

Posters, 'As Tears Go By'

9 June 1988