Good Poster Art

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Tempo ◽  
1957 ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Peter Shaffer

A pair of broadcasts on the Bolshoi Ballet given at the end of last year by James Monahan and Arnold Haskell served to crystallise much that has been said by many enthusiasts about the relative modernity of the Russian and British ballet companies. The controversy flared up on the first night of Romeo and Juliet and has not died yet. Its lines are now familiar: some blamed the Russians for presenting poster art; others praised them for doing just that, and thereby entertaining the simple-minded but enthusiastic hordes of people who nightly come to see them at the Bolshoi theatre. On the English side some have rejoiced in our greater complexity of idea, subtlety of approach, and dedication to pure dancing, whilst others have been moved to attack our ballet as being over sophisticated—the just deserts of an essentially inbred and decadent public.


Author(s):  
Lyubov’ V. Rodionova

The years of the Great Patriotic War demonstrated the most striking and rapid development of the domestic poster art. In that difficult time for the country the posters were created not only by the masters of graphics, but also by the masters of painting and sculptural art schools. In the severe conditions there were born masterpieces, without which it became impossible to imagine figuratively-historical outline of the war years. Along with the songs, front-line photographs and newsreels, the posters occupied its special place in the memory of participants of the tragic events and continue to excite the modern audiences, providing spiritual connection and affinity of generations.


2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 212-225
Author(s):  
Daniel Kowalsky ◽  

The Spanish Civil War played a unique role in the Soviet Union’s geo-political strategies in the second half of the 1930s. The conflict marked the first occasion that Moscow had participated in a foreign war beyond its traditional spheres of influence. But Soviet involvement in the Spanish war went far beyond the sale of armor and aviation to the beleaguered Spanish Republic. While Moscow organized and supported the creation of the International Brigades, on the cultural front, the Soviets sought to roll out a broad program of propaganda, employing film, poster art and music to link the destinies of the Slavic and Hispanic peoples. If scholars have succeeded in recent years to rewrite the history of many components of Soviet participation in the Spanish Civil War, diplomatic relations between the Republic and Moscow remain an unexplored theme. This is the first instalment of a two-part article, unpublished official documents, as well as memoirs, newsreels, private letters and the press, to offer the first narrative history of the Republican embassy in Moscow. The diplomatic rapprochement between the USSR and Spain in 1933 is explored as a prelude to the exchange of ambassadors following the outbreak of the Civil War in summer 1936. The appointment of the young Spanish doctor Marcelino Pascua to a newly recreated Moscow embassy is examined in detail, up to autumn 1937. This article allows the reader hitherto unavailable access to the daily trials, disappointments and occasional breakthroughs experienced by the Spanish Republican ambassador in Stalin’s Soviet Union.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-153
Author(s):  
Georgi Terziev ◽  

The presented research highlights the innovative charge in the poster tasks as an essential part of the educational work in fine arts. With its essence of an artistic-aesthetic phenomenon with a strong public resonance, the poster focuses on the communicative functions of graphic design. It is in its field that students can express their attitude to all current problems of the present day. Modern technologies allow quick contact with the top achievements in poster art. The digital methods for polygraphic realization allow for the expeditious circulation of the students’ poster works and their introduction in the public environment. In the space of these pictorial tasks the art pedagogue creates preconditions for the teenagers to be more empathetic, more active and creative in their striving to join noble causes. This graphic genre would transform the negative impulses of society into a creative effort, which forms the self-confidence of students that from an object of multifaceted aggressive social influences they become a subject with an active position. The idea is that poster tasks are a reliable means of overcoming the inertia of layered methodological stereotypes.


Nancy Cunard ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 253-262
Author(s):  
Jane Marcus

This chapter covers Nancy Cunard’s experiences as a war reporter during the Spanish Civil War. Marcus argues that Cunard and her leftist comrades “produced an international and multiracial cross-class culture of protest against fascism in journalism” throughout the thirties. The chapter also restores their efforts in poetry, theatre, poster art, film, radio, collage, and pamphlets in an effort to correct a history of radicalism that has been “so systematically erased or buried” that this “work of recovery has of necessity become oppositional to an established nationalist and elitist (male) canon.”


ATLAS JOURNAL ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (44) ◽  
pp. 2207-2213
Author(s):  
Fatıma TOKGÖZ GÜN ◽  
Mehmet ÖZKARTAL

Hybrid works in art have many examples from past to present. Hybridization in poster art has been in question since the first years when posters started to appear. Hybridization in designs can occur in terms of both method and technique. In present study, it is mentioned how graphic design has removed the boundaries between itself and many disciplines since the use of technology in the field of art and how it allows hybrid studies. As it is known, the main purpose of graphic design is to convey an existing idea to the other party in the simplest way. For this reason, graphic design, which updates itself over time, has added motion and sound to its work area and shows itself with effective designs. While technically designs consist of two-dimensional studies for years, they can also be designed in three-dimensional or even four-dimensional forms with hybrid methods. While poster designs are prepared as flat and static, they update themselves with kinetic typography and motion images. Moreover, with hybrid presentations such as augmented reality and virtual reality in current works, designs interact more with people. It is seen that the artists who can think from a hybrid point of view attract more attention and interaction with the hybridity reflected in their designs, and they also reach the intended result in a catchy manner.


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