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Social Issue Poster
The document discusses social issue posters and what makes an effective poster. It notes that effective posters tell a story, can be read from a distance, are interesting and eye-catching, have a simple uncluttered design, use clear language and images logically, and summarize key points without excess detail. It provides examples of social issue posters that communicate a message, reveal worldwide issues, often call for a response or movement, and can address political, personal, racial, environmental or other topics through visuals and facts about the issue.
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Social Issue Poster
- 1. •If you couldchange one thing in this world to make it a better place....what would it be and why?
- 2. Name the Typeof Poster!!
- 7. What makes aneffective poster? Tells a story Can be read from more than 5 feet away Is interesting and eye-catching Has a simple, uncluttered design Uses clear language and images in a logical sequence Summarizes key points without excess detail
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- 9. We all choosewhich traditions to follow and which to challenge… ART has the power to provoke, promote, protest, proclaim, preach….
- 10. Pablo Picasso – Guernica 1937– 12’x26’ – Madrid, Spain
- 11. I don't believein an art that is NOT born out of man's need to open his heart. - Edward Munch - A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.. - Hans Hoffmann -
- 12. Moneta Sleet Jr.,Rosa Parks, Dr. and Mrs. Abernathy, Dr. Ralph Bunche, and Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. leading marchers into Montgomery, 1965
- 14. Andy Warhol (1928-1987),"Race Riot," signed and dated 'Andy Warhol 64' (on the overlap of the upper left panel), acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, in four parts, overall: 60 x 66 in. (152.4 x 167.6 cm.) Painted in 1964.
- 16. Social Issue Posters •Communicate a message • Reveal issues that are found around the world. • Often call for a response or movement. • Can be political, personal, religious, racial, environmental, etc.
- 17. • Visual imagesthat relate to the topic. • Simple and to the point, clear for the audience • Words and images contain information or facts about the the social issue be revealed through the poster. • Could tell us what we need to do. Social Issue Posters
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- 22. Voices Be Heard! -Pollution -Theenvironment -Abortion -Racism -Terrorism -Homelessness -AIDS/disease -Technology -Religious Wars -The Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan -Poverty -Corporations -The Global Economy -Verbal or physical abuse -Bullying -Depression -Suicide -Discrimination -Drug abuse -Alcoholism -Immigration -Medical research -The media -Family issues
- 23. What are youthinking ? What is wrong with the world? What is the biggest problem that you have to deal with? Why do you care? Why should anyone else care? What should we do about it?
Editor's Notes
- #3 Advertizement
- #4 Event
- #5 Inspirational
- #6 Propaganda / Political
- #7 Informative
- #10 When people are not satisfied with things the way they are, they sometimes protest, give attention to or try to persuade others to change the way they think, act, and/or deliberate. They work to change things by deconstructing, criticizing, protesting and exposing the elements and issues that affect the human condition. Ultimately, throughout the course of history, humans have reacted in diverse forms to affect social change. Consider the idea of a revolution. In political revolutions the old powers are overthrown and new people take over the government. In social revolutions the relationships between social classes change, or the population experiences the rise of new social classes or the expansion of existing classes. In economic revolutions wealth changes hands. There are also scientific, industrial, agricultural, artistic, and religious revolutions when old ideas are replaced or transformed into new ideas. In many cultures and throughout time, artists have used their artworks to protest, bring attention to, and/or expose their ideas. Sometimes a painting, sculpture, or building can persuade just as well or better, than words can. The power of the visual is extraordinary!
- #11 Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, Basque Country, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces, on 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. At about 4:30 on Monday, 26 April 1937, warplanes of the German Condor Legion, commanded by Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, bombed Guernica for about two hours. Germany, at this time led by Hitler, had lent material support to the Nationalists and were using the war as an opportunity to test out new weapons and tactics. Later, intense aerial bombardment became a crucial preliminary step in the Blitzkrieg tactic Guernica, the most ancient town of the Basque people and the centre of their cultural tradition, was completely destroyed yesterday afternoon by insurgent air raiders. The bombardment of this open town far behind the lines occupied precisely three hours and a quarter, during which a powerful fleet of aeroplanes consisting of three types of German types, Junkers and Heinkel bombers, did not cease unloading on the town bombs weighing from 1,000 lbs. downwards and, it is calculated, more than 3,000 two-pounder aluminium incendiary projectiles. The fighters, meanwhile, plunged low from above the centre of the town to machinegun those of the civilian population who had taken refuge in the fields. Guernica was a quiet village. The nearest military target of any consequence was a factory on the outskirts of the town, which manufactured various war products. The factory went through the attack unscathed. Thus, the motivation of the bombing was clearly one of intimidation. Furthermore, a majority of the town's men were away as they were fighting on behalf of the Republicans. Thus, the town at the time of the bombing was populated mostly by women and children.
- #13 It includes many of the most important leaders of the Civil Rights Movement including Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and others. But it also includes thousands of ordinary citizens fighting for African American citizens’ right to vote. They marched from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol, Montgomery. Just over four months later, the 1965 Voting Rights Act was signed into law. This photograph captures the solidarity, the power, the emotion, and the spirit of the time. The photographer photographed Martin Luther King, Jr. several times and won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for his photo of Dr. King’s widow at his funeral.
- #14 Memphis sanitation workers, the majority of them African American, went out on strike on February 12, 1968, demanding recognition for their union, better wages, and safer working conditions after two trash handlers were killed by a malfunctioning garbage truck. As it dragged on through March, with the Memphis mayor refusing to negotiate, the strike gained national attention. As they marched, striking workers carried copies of a poster declaring “I AM A MAN,” a statement that recalled a question abolitionists posed more than 100 years earlier, “Am I not a man and a brother?” Martin Luther King Jr. joined the cause, speaking to a crowd of 6,000 in late March and returning on April 3 to deliver one of his most famous speeches, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” King placed the strike in a larger context, declaring, “The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Honor King: End Racism! broadside, April 8, 1968. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee—the cry is always the same: ‘We want to be free.’” King was assassinated at Memphis’s Lorraine Motel the next night, just one day before a massive rally was planned. On April 8, four days after King’s assassination, his widow, Coretta Scott King, led some 20,000 marchers through the streets of Memphis, holding copies of another poster that read, “HONOR KING: END RACISM!” The strike ended on April 16, with the city agreeing to union recognition and raises. http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/civil-rights-movement/resources/civil-rights-posters-1968
- #15 Pop artist, Andy Warhol, wasn’t particularly known for his serious artworks. However in this work, he employed his usual strategies of repetition and color that he used he did in his iconic works of Campbell’s Soup Cans and portraits of Marilyn Monroe to create and emotional and political impact. The photograph repeated in Warhol’s artwork is of police officers in Birmingham sicking attack dogs on a retreating black man. Although some might argue that the repetition of the image desensitizes us, I think the repetition forces the viewer to keep looking and keep thinking about the subject. The addition of the colors, especially taking into consideration the symbolism of red, white, and blue, enhances the emotion and adds powerful commentary to the photos. Questions to ask: What is happening in this picture? Why did the artist repeat this same image four times? What emotional effect does the repetition have? Does the repetition make you feel more angry about the actions in the photograph or does it desensitize you to the events? What does the black and white quality of the photograph remind you of? What was the artist saying by printing it in this way? Why did the artist choose these colors? What do these colors signify? What do you think the artist wanted to tell us by making this artwork? What did the artist want us to feel?
- #23 Choose an issue you care deeply about, and would want to try and do something about. This issue should be something that is a general issue or concern in society somewhere in your community or even in the world. Be sure you are picking a general issue, not simply one of your pet peeves! Some ideas of things you might be interested in depicting/standing up for or against: pollution/environmental concerns, abortion rights, racism, terrorism, homelessness, Aids, technology, religious wars, the war in Iraq, poverty, corporations, the global economy, verbal abuse, bullying, depression, teen suicide, discrimination, drug abuse, drinking and driving, immigration, medical research, the media, family issues,etc…What do you CARE about? Talk to people- have you, one of your friends, or anyone in your family or community been affected by any of these? How? Why? How did it affect them? Consider who your audience may or may not be. Let your voice be heard!