Pyongyang Art Studio

SOCIALIST REALISM

This art style has a strong connection with the Socialist propaganda and revolutionary ideology. This art is highly developed in DPRK as it is part of daily life, mainly in the form of posters in streets, schools, cinemas, and official buildings. Mediums vary from poster paint on paper, oil paint on canvas, woodblock, to traditional Korean ink wash with water colour and reduced gouache. Also below is an example of a handpainted poster image scanned and printed on plasticised material and lit at night. This method is replacing some handpainted billboards some of which had illumination at night from electric lamps.

FILM POSTERS are popular in North Korea and depict the themes of revolutionary movies. Original handpainted posters, and printed bilingual posters for international film festivals.
PAINTINGS are more refined and have a closer relation to the traditional Korean style. In North Korea these are called Korean Fine Arts or Juje Hua (thematic paintings). Each comes with a letter from the DPRK art institute to guarantee its providence and is signed by the artist.
ART BOOKS - We offer a range of North Korean books in English about culture and arts of the country, including classics such as Kim Jong Il's "On the Art of Cinema", "The Great Teacher of Journalists" by the same author, and books on Korean Fine Art. Also comic books, calendars, and maps.
PROPAGANDA ART - Pyongyang Art Studio only specialises in DPRK Fine Art. We get many requests for propaganda posters and we suggest you contact with "http://stores.ebay.com/northkoreaposter"