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Marquee Masterworks Of Bangkok

These are oil paintings and they are movie billboard -- Thailand boasts the biggest and some of the finest in the world. The artisanship is superb, almost tempting the viewer to call this a native fine art; photos are collaged, a grid is drawn, firts on the photo and then on a big canvas bold black strokes deline the figures in the painting and young workmen in shorts sweep colours in vast areas with casual quick precision. Scenes have little to do with events i the films, and graphic grab, imagination, flair is what is used to seize the attention of passersby.