Posters for Group Activity
1. Choose 6 posters from one period (choose one website)
2. Analyze political concept, message and historical background.
3. Analyze visual strategy and style (how many colors are used, lines or forms, images, collages, font, typography?). What is the purpose/goal of the poster? How does the poster convey the message strongly and effectively?
4. Make power point presentation for class (10 minutes)
Upload your presentation to blog in PDF format
Group 1: Smithsonian Institution – Posters American Style (1910-1970)
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/posters/pp.html
Group 2: Smithsonian Institution – Produce for victory: Posters on the American Home Front (1941-1945)
http://americanhistory.si.edu/victory/index.htm
Group 3: Soviet Era Propaganda Posters (1917- 1950)
http://www.internationalposter.com/country-primers/soviet-posters.aspx
http://sovietposter.blogspot.com/
http://www.crestock.com/blog/design/propaganda-design-aesthetics-soviet-retro-posters-118.aspx
Group 4: Decade of Protest: Political Posters (research the United States only) (1965-1975)
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Exhibits/Track16.html
Group 5: Decade of Protest: Political Posters (research Cuba and Vietnam only) (1965-1975)
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Exhibits/Track16.html
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