Popular Movies as Russian Lubeki

These are a little dated but every bit as awesome today as the day they were made. Russian artist Andrey Kuznetsov (in Cyrillic Кузнецов Андрей) created an absolutely inspired set of fake traditional Russian  woodblock prints to "tell the story" of famous popular movies. Traditionally such Russian folk prints are known as lubok (plural, usually in meaning including the story, "lubeki"). Although many websites have referred to the lubeki as telling fairy tales, that was only one of the many stories and writings they related. Their primary purpose was, actually, decoration -- even the Tsar decorated with them. After the break I display several of Kuznetsov's series (the easier ones to interpret -- to get them all go to his site).

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