Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Posters From the WPA


The artist is trying to influence behavior by example. The artist is showing mothers that they show check to see if their child has a problem with their sight. I like how the artist made their message appear as an eye chart. Putting the boy in a red sweater draws my attention to the child and then the child's eyes draw my attention to the mother holding the paper for him to read. The poster is convincing me to have my child's eyes examined by showing me a mother who is concerned enough about her child to see if he can read the paper she is showing him and if I'm concerned enough about my own child I should do the same.


This palette has warm tones. The variations in brown values allows for shading. The red attracts attention.


The artist's style is simplistic with some minor shading. The people in the poster have been simplified, but are still not too abstracted so they still have realistic qualities.


The poster makes me want to go to the zoo to see the different types of animals. The poster is asking me to visit the zoo. The poster is convincing me to want to go to the zoo by showing me an interesting looking animal in pretty realistic detail making me interested and curious about all the other interesting animals that are at the zoo for me to see.




The yellow is somewhat bright and attention getting. The variations in value of the browns allow for pretty good shading allowing for giving three-dimensional shape to objects.



The artist's style is pretty realistic giving great attention to detail. Although the subject in the poster is not photo real, the artist makes it looks pretty realistic do to the detail in the shading. The yellow used in the background really makes the subject "pop".



The artist is using a couple of different birds doing playful things to capture the interest of the viewer to buy the book and check out the 100 pictures of different birds of the world and see what fun and amusing things that they are doing in the photographs. The poster wants me to buy the book of 100 pictures of birds from around the world. The poster is convincing me to buy the book of 100 photos by showing a couple of playful birds.


This palette is fairly bright with only one dark color. There is a combination of both cool and warm colors. There are not a lot of variations in value of one color, but there is one big contrast in light and dark between the white and the black. I like the contrast between the warm golden yellow and the cool crisp blue.



The artist's style is very simplistic with no shading. Even though the animals are very simplistic, they still look realistic. The artist's style is also playful with the pelican trying to eat the "E" and the toucan perched on the "D".

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