-Limitations in paper in the 60's made artists to use craft paper in some ocassions, and even newsprint paper, creating some fascinating results.
-As a social compromise, the work of the poster artists, at the begining of the revolution was to distance itself from the old poster that glorified movie stars and sexy latin stereotypes.
-Movie posters were posted on "paraguitas"
or small umbrellas around Havana (later they were extended to
other cities in the country). Paraguitas hold 8 posters and you
can still see it around.
-The use of black and white in cuban movie
posters was due to limitations in the early years but later was
adopted by artists to add dramatism and conceptualism to their
medium.
-Expressionist spaniard painter Antonio Saura,
in a conference at the School of Fine Arts, was in favor of black
as a color. To make his point he designed the poster for "Memorias
del Subdesarrollo", a great film that ended up with a bad
poster (although it is an important poster just because Saura
designed it)
-In the 70s, some silkscreen posters were printed
with up to 30 colors! That means 30 days of work because each
paint color takes a day to dry in order to apply the next coat.Manually,
one by one.
-Polish posters were the inspiration of many
cuban artists.Later, many famous polish designers expressed their
respect for cuban posters.
-As early as the 70s, the cuban poster, was
elevated to the art category and began to be collected all around
the world.
-In 1985, the exhibition of foreign films in
Cuba began to decline, from 200 films a year to a mere 30,in 1986
just 20 and finally in 1987 only 10. By 1988, posters were made
only for cuban movies.
-In the 90s the most important ICAIC artists left the country. Reboiro and ñiko in Spain, Azcuy and Julioeloy in Mexico. Alfredo Rostgaard and Muñoz Bachs, recently deceased, remained in Cuba.