1967 Original Cuban OSPAAAL Poster.CHE GUEVARA.Historical importance.Art.Vietnam
1967 Original Cuban OSPAAAL Poster.CHE GUEVARA.Historical importance.Art.Vietnam
TITLE: Create 2,3 many Vietnams
YEAR: 1967
ARTIST: Alfredo Rostgaard
MEDIUM: Offset
SIZE: 32x56cm
CONDITION: Mint. This poster with small pictures of Che Guevara is a rarity. Never before a living revolution hero was shown printed in stamps or posters. That was reserved for the martyrs. In this occasion the CIA was after Che Guevara (Che was in Africa then) and Castro - to make the CIA believe that Che was already dead -himself talk to Rostgaard (the poster creator) to make it, based on a design Castro himself thought about. Rostgaard told me that it was not a good design and that he change it completely and Castro liked it after all.
The Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Organización de Solidaridad con los Pueblos de Asia, África y América Latina), abbreviated as OSPAAAL produced brightly colored propaganda posters promoting their internationalism and socialist causes.
Usually they had their message written in Spanish, English, French, and Arabic. As opposed to being put up on walls around Cuba like other type of propaganda poster, these were instead folded up and stapled into copies of Tri-continental, so that they could be distributed internationally by mail subscription. This allowed O.S.P.A.A.A.L to send its message to the several hundred thousand subscribers around the world. Cuban political posters are among the best designed in the world and many prizes were awarded to their creators.
We take very seriously the packing of our original posters. To mail it to you, we first roll it around a large tube and covered with tissue paper to secure the ends. Then we put it inside a wider shipping tube to prevent damage to the edges and the poster never touch the walls of the tube.
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