
Affichiste is the name (literally ‘poster designer’) taken by the French artists and photographers Raymond Hains (1926-) and Jacques de la Villeglé (1926-), who met in 1949 and created a technique to create collages from pieces of torn-down posters during the early 1950s. These works, which they displayed for the first time in 1957, were called affiches lacérées (torn posters).
To produce precise images and effects, Villeglé manipulated the posters. Still, Hains left them more or less as he found them to illustrate the advertising world’s aesthetic bankruptcy. In the 1950s, other artists, particularly the Italian Mimmo Rotella and the German Wolf Vostell, adopted a similar technique.
Prints and Posters
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George Barbier Wall Art Prints – Ready to Frame
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Miramande Sous La Neige/ Miramande under Snow 1933
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“Harborfront,” ca. 1915-1917, Important French Cubist Modernist Watercolor, City
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Neige a Gordes – 20th Century Cubist Oil, Snowy Winter Landscape by Andre Lhote c.1930
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André Lhote – Original Signed Pastel – Woman 1940s
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André Lhote – Original Signed Pastel – Lying Woman Circa 1920
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André Lhote – Cubist Landscape – Original Etching 1946
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Draugen by Theodor Kittelsen – Art Paper Print
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The Princess Picking Lice from The Troll by Theodor Kittelsen – Art Print
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