Cuban Revolutionary Poster vs Psychedelic Poster Art
Cuban Revolutionary Poster was influenced by Psychedelic Poster Art — absorbed psychedelic colour into revolutionary silkscreen.
Cuban Revolutionary Poster
The bold silkscreen posters of revolutionary Cuba, made for solidarity campaigns and cinema in flat planes of vivid color. Pop energy, photographic stencils, and graphic wit fused political message with playful visual invention.
- Flat, saturated silkscreen color planes
- Simplified iconic, often symbolic imagery
- Photographic stencil and Pop-art devices
- Hand-drawn or playful integrated lettering
- Economical compositions with humor and surrealism
Psychedelic Poster Art
The hallucinatory concert-poster style of 1960s San Francisco, built on vibrating complementary colors, melting hand-lettering you can barely read, and swirling Art Nouveau revival forms.
- Vibrating complementary colors placed edge to edge
- Melting, hand-drawn lettering bent to fill the composition
- Sinuous Art Nouveau and Vienna Secession revival curves
- Dense, all-over compositions with little empty space
- Deliberately challenging, near-illegible typography
At a glance
| Cuban Revolutionary Poster | Psychedelic Poster Art | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1960s–1970s | c. 1966–1971 |
| Discipline | Graphic Design | Graphic Design |
| Region | Cuba | United States |
| Family | Poster, Vernacular/Pop | Vernacular/Pop, Counterculture |
| Formal traits | silkscreen, flat-color, bold-outline, political | hand-lettering, vibrating-color, art-nouveau-revival, dense-composition |
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