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Great looking poster for a 1973 art exhibition of theater arts featuring "sketches of sets and costumes" (эскизы декораций и костюмов) at the A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum in Moscow. The image of the theater masks have, universally, become like a symbol of theater or acting. Generally, known as "the Comedy and Tragedy Masks" or just "the theater masks", there is much mystery as to where these two masks really originate from. These masks real names were Melpomene (Tragedy Mask) and Thalia (Comedy Mask). These were taken from Greek Mythology. Thalia, being the muse of comedy and pastoral poetry; and Melpomene, the muse of tragedy. Muse, in this case, is a protector of an art or science.