Graphic posters

1940
In 1940, the posters were mainly for the war. They are bright colours, mostly containing black, red, white and yellow. All of them look hand drawn and include large text.

1950
The 1950's posters are mostly for film/food/condements/body stuff.
They include more colours and better illustrations that from the 1940's. The typography is still big and bold as they are trying to sell.

1960
The 1960 posters are very much peace and music designs.
They include much brighter colours and 'bubble' type fonts.
This is my favourite era for posters as i am into peace protests and i love the bright use of colours, i think they are the most eye-catching.

Final postcards

Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954, in Nuremberg, Germany) is an American artist classified as a feminist artist, a movement with beginnings in the 20th century. Her Body Art is imbued with political significance, undermining the traditional erotic representations of women by male artists, and often exposes the inner biological systems of females as a metaphor for hidden social issues. Her work also often includes the themes of birth and regeneration, as well as sustenance, and frequently has Catholic allusions. Smith has also been active in debate over controversies such as AIDS, gender, race, and battered women. She lives in the East Village, Manhattan.

Max Ernst

German-born painter, sculptor and printmaker; one of the leading Surrealists. Born at Brühl, near Cologne. Began to study philosophy at the University of Bonn in 1909, but became increasingly preoccupied with painting; self-taught, but influenced by van Gogh and Macke. Artillery officer in the First World War. The paintings of de Chirico helped to stimulate his interest in dream-like fantastic imagery, and he founded the Cologne Dada group with Baargeld and Arp 1919-21. Made collages and, later, paintings with irrational combinations of imagery. First one-man exhibition at the Galerie Au sans Pareil, Paris, 1921.

In 1922 moved to Paris, where his friendship with Breton and Eluard led to active participation in the Surrealist movement. His discovery of the technique of frottage (rubbing) in 1925 provided him with a means of evoking hallucinatory visions. Collage novels and illustrations, including La Femme 100 Têtes 1929 and Une Semaine de Bonté 1934. Made his first sculpture in 1934. Went to the USA as a refugee in 1941, living first in or near New York, then in Sedona, Arizona; from 1950 again lived mainly in France. Awarded the main painting prize at the 1954 Venice Biennale. Died in Paris.

Salvador Dali

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali I Domenech was born at 8:45 on the morning of May 11, 1904 in the small agricultural town of Figueres, Spain. Figueres is located in the foothills of the Pyrenees, only sixteen miles from the French border in the principality of Catalonia. The son of a prosperous notary, Dali spent his boyhood in Figueres and at the family’s summer home in the coastal fishing village of Cadaques where his parents built his first studio. As an adult, he made his home with his wife Gala in nearby Port Lligat. Many of his paintings reflect his love of this area of Spain.
The young Dali attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Early recognition of Dali’s talent came with his first one-man show in Barcelona in 1925. He became internationally known when three of his paintings, including The Basket of Bread (now in the Museum’s collection), were shown in the third annual Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1928.
The following year, Dali held his first one-man show in Paris. He also joined the surrealists, led by former Dadaist Andre Breton. That year, Dali met Gala Eluard when she visited him in Cadaques with her husband, poet Paul Eluard. She became Dali’s lover, muse, business manager, and chief inspiration.
Dali soon became a leader of the Surrealist Movement. His painting, The Persistance of Memory, with the soft or melting watches is still one of the best-known surrealist works. But as the war approached, the apolitical Dali clashed with the Surrealists and was “expelled” from the surrealist group during a “trial” in 1934. He did however, exhibit works in international surrealist exhibitions throughout the decade but by 1940, Dali was moving into a new type of painting with a preoccupation with science and religion.

Final piece and evaluation

Overall, i think my final piece is quite good. I like the effects that i put on the text and the fact that i took the time to add video footage that i had taken into the final motion graphics piece.
I made my motion graphics piece in Motion, i tried using After Effects however found it really difficult as i hadn't used the software or had any help with it. Motion was however slightly easier to use although i still had trouble with it, i ended up losing my work several times because the software would crash and in the end i was happy with the result i got and how much time and effort i put into it.
I used numurous effects throughout my piece included text effects, opacity changes, 3D changes and lot's of other effects.

I researched a few motion graphic artist and one of them that i like had made a video that had black and white, i liked this because the colours stood out from the black and white and it was easy to the eye.
The font i used was 'Brush Script MT', i like this font because it is a script font, it is easy to read and quite formal so it broadens out to the older generation as well as the younger generation.

If i were to make it again i would focus on making it in after effects and learning how to do it, but as we had such little time i preferred using Motion as it was easier to learn. I would also try and make my footage less shaky.

Here is my final piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKBSbqz-Ww8

Screenshots of the making.