Bob Marley Posters | The Many Faces & Posters Of Bob Marley

The Many Faces & Posters Of Bob Marley

Posted on May 15, 2008
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Well, here’s a cool Bob Marley poster. It’s a popular technique used these days to create one big image from hundreds or thousands of smaller images. It’s called mosaic art, or mosaic pictures, or mosaic posters. Depending on the final image I suppose. The art of mosaic is many hundreds of years old, but to use actual complete images, to form one bigger image is relatively new, and greatly aided through the use of computer programs. Kinds of takes the artist out of the equation.

If your a big Bob Marley fan (and who isn’t?) on a poster budget, then this is the one for you. How else can you decorate your walls with Bob Marley for the price of one piece of art. When really your putting hundreds of his images up at once. Not to mention the fun you can have playing Find Waldo with all the smaller images.

It’s not all just photographs though, there are CD shots in there as well. Not just the CD album cover shot, but actual shots of the CD’s he released. You can find out who’s really got the best eyes, by seeing who can read the most song titles from the smaller CD shots. It won’t be me, that’s for sure. My eyes are way too old to be that good.

Of course, most of the times you view this poster, you’ll be looking at it from a distance. In which case, everything just blends in nicely, and you see the calm, cool, master of reggae sporting his favorite vice, and just chilling with the vibe. He’s in his own little piece of paradise. It’s a exquisitely evocative poster when you think about it. All the images of Bob in one place. A visual synopsis of the peace maker, prophet, artist, musician, lover, rocker, and kind of reggae. All his incarnations in one beautiful poster.

“Roots, rock, reggae” Bob would say. And this image captures it all in one fell swoop. It’s undeniable. It’s an allegory for the days of one mans life. Bob Marleys life in this instance. Although, it’s not the picture I would have chosen for the main picture. I would have picked something that really personified his live a little more. While Bob Marley stood for a lot of things, it was his music that was always first and foremost. Being that I’m very partial to live concert posters, that’s what I would have chosen here. But, hey I’m not the artist here. Just the dreaming about what it would have been like to be one.

‘Scuse me while I end this post ;)


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