Grand Guignol Poster,Jules Chéret,1890
Jules Chéret (May 31,1836 - September 23,1932) was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of Belle Époque poster art. He has been called the father of the modern poster. Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris (1897-1962). Oscar Méténier was the Grand Guignol's founder and original director. Under his direction,the theatre produced plays about a class of people who were not considered appropriate subjects in other venues: prostitutes,criminals,street urchins,and others at the lower end of Paris's social echelon. At the Grand Guignol,patrons would see five or six plays,all in a style that attempted to be brutally true to the theatre's naturalistic ideals. The plays were in a variety of styles,but the most popular and best known were the horror plays,featuring a distinctly bleak worldview as well as notably gory special effects in their notoriously bloody climaxes.
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