Carmen – Vintage Poster
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Carmen, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This 1936 silkscreen poster advertises a presentation of Georges Bizet's *Carmen* in Los Angeles, sponsored by the Federal Music Project. The opera is adapted from Prosper Mérimée's 1845 novella and premiered in Paris in 1875. The Federal Music Project was one of the Works Progress Administration's arts programs, created during the Depression to employ musicians and bring live performances to communities that rarely saw them. Like other WPA posters, this one uses bold, flat color and simplified shapes, a style suited to the mass production of silkscreen prints.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Mérimée Prosper 1803-1870. Federal Music Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Operas & operettas--California--Los Angeles--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,743 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 765_Carmen_1936 |
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