Travel Posters

I find this poster intriguing because it appeals to women.  Most posters asking you to join the forces are geared towards men and men only.  Most people would say that joining the service is risky business and should not be taken lightly, it is something that changes your entire life, you do not know where you are going next or if you will be alive the next day. 

This poster looks a lot like something you would see in a fashion magazine, something for a clothing add. Her hair is blowing in the wind with a smug smirk on her face when really she should be feeling anxious or proud! It also looks like she is modeling off Navy attire.  This add says nothing about the Navy.  This add could also appeal to men, she is posed in a bit of a sexual stance and the poster reads "I want you" I don't know what else could be more suggestive.  This poster is successful only because it has the potential to grab the attention of both sexes.  

This poster is successful because it grabs peoples attention from all over.  It makes them feel that they can be there too and that people from all over the world are going to be there.  It also makes traveling look exciting and new because at the time it was new and everyone likes new. Eastern airlines is using the world fair to their advantage in order to gain business and that is successful advertising.   

Cubism

Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963) in Paris between 1907 and 1914.  Cubist painters felt that art should not resemble nature or life in it's true form.  Cubism was no model of traditional techniques used for painting such as perspective and three dimensionality.  Cubist paintings often looked like something you would cut out of a magazine and place back together but in a non traditional sense to where you could hardly recognize what the image was originally. Cubism paved the way for geometric abstract art by putting a completely different emphasis on perspective, in renaissance art especially, perspective was what made a flat image look like real life. Cubists artists wanted nothing of the sort they made their images look completely dismembered.  

Homage to Picasso by John Nolan 

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Pablo Picasso 1971 Getty Images

In the four decades from 1870-1910, western society witnessed more technological progress than in the previous four centuries. During this period, inventions such as photography, cinematography, sound recording, the telephone, the motor car and the airplane were the start of a new age. The problem for artists at this time was how to reflect the modernity of the era using previously trusted traditions that had served art for the last four centuries. Photography had begun to replace painting as the tool for documenting the age and for artists to sit illustrating cars, planes and images of the new technologies was not exactly inventive. Artists needed a more radical approach that expanded the possibilities of art in the same way that technology was extending the boundaries of communication and travel. Picasso and Braque were the ones to get people to look at art in a new way.

Braque, Photographed by Arnold Newman 1956

Purple tablecloth, Braque