Download - THE ART OF PROTEST
THE ART
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THOBABEN 2011
AMERICAN POSTERS
• The tradition of poster making in the U.S. dates back to before the American Revolution!
The Culpeper Minutemen flag A symbol from both the American Revolutionary War and Civil War. "Liberty or Death" "Don't Tread on Me”
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CIVIL WAR
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John Heartfield (Herzfeld) used his abilities to fight Hitler and the Nazis!
LEFT: March 8, 1934 - This piece is an interpretation of the Nazi military slogan. Blood dripping from the swastika infers that the military (weapons and soldiers) was all Germany needed for victory.
RIGHT: May 31, 1934 ; This piece shows humanity, broken on the wheel. It mirrors the traditional piece with
a reference to the swastika, the Third Reich breaking human life.
POLISH POSTERS• The late 1940s witnessed a
shift in the life of the Polish poster.
• It was at this time that a small group of artists, including Henryk Tomaszewski, Józef Mroszczak and Eryk Lipiński, set out on a new path of artistic invention.
• When asked in 1946 by the Polish Film Department to design posters, they agreed- but with the stipulation that the work be based on their own artistic terms, not the typical advertising clichés of the past.
Video:http://freedomonthefence.com/Website: http://freedomonthefence.com/history/
Film Poster for The Birds , Bronislaw Zelek, 1965
THE ART OF SOCIAL PROTEST• Throughout history
artists have used their skills to promote a specific point of view.
• This is a classic anti-war poster from the 1960s.
Lorraine Schneider (American, 1925-1972), for the Los
Angeles organization Another Mother for Peace (AMP), a
Vietnam War protest poster, 1967, offset lithograph.
Rupert Garcia; L.A. Committee to Free Angela ; Offset, 1972 , California
Women's Graphics Collective, Silkscreen1972 , Chicago, Illinois
L EADERS
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Protest poster designed for a march on Washington DC on the eve of the 2002 war in Iraq.
Rupert Garcia’s images reference art, Mexican American history, advertising and consumer iconography, the Vietnam War, and the Mexican Revolution.As with his current art works in different media, Garcia’s early posters and prints used emotionally charged symbols to reiterate the point that cyclical upheavals have defined changes in human power structures, commerce, and civic progress throughout history. Rupert Garcia, El Grito de
Rebelde, 1975Color silkscreen
26 x 20 in.
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Robert Lorzaartist
CONTEMPORARY
‘ TH IN
K GREEN ’
POSTER
Root Yourself by Brendan VailI wanted to show people with my
poster that there are greener fuels that we could be using, and
help people make a more educated decision.
REDUCE
GREENHOUSE
GAS
EMISS
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Altas Helped by Rosanna Ho
"We have the tools that we need to achieve a
sustainable planet"
AIGA
AMER I CAN I N
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More examples from their “get out the vote” campaign:
http://www.aiga.org/get-out-the-vote
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POSTER CLASH
2011 CONTEST
T H E M E : UN I T
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One of the winners - LINK to:http://clash.aigablueridge.org/
To see more examples…
CHAZ MAVIANNE DAVIESP O S T E R O N A I D S A W A R E N E S S R E M E M B E R S L A V E R Y
CHAZ MAVIANNE-DAV
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"Ove
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I hav
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imag
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discrim
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and human
rights,
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Link to more about Chaz:http://retiary.org/idea/idea5/idea_5/chaz/chaz.htm
GREAT LINKS:Free Your Pizels: 10 of the Best Free Fonts for Protest Postershttp://www.patrickstjohn.org/blog/10-best-free-fonts-protest-
posters
More about Chaz Mavianne-Davies at:Creative Defiance his artist’s page at: http://www.maviyane.com/
and an AIGA page about him at: http://www.aiga.org/design-journeys-chaz-maviyane-davies/