Movie Poster Examples

Visit to Reed College

The Language of the Nude exhibit at Reed College was a great educational experience. It was nice to examine drawings from different locations and dates all at once and see them up close. The drawing that comes to mind when thinking back on our visit is “Funeral of a Hero” by Jacques Louis David. I could really understand the realism in this drawing because my art history class has observed his paintings before. Jacques Louis David likes to depict certain characters as Christ like, which was depicted in the drawing. The fallen nude hero was slumped over, imitating Christ which in a realism way speaks of David’s culture.
In today’s nude art, it may not look the same, but our artists now have different influences and culture which affects the art. Today we have media telling us what looks beautiful which can come through by which models are chosen to be used in current art. This may change depending on the country for which the culture would change.

Text/Image Project

My text was randomly selected from the book FutureSpeak by Roberta Rogow in 1991 on page 139. I have included the text with each image.

"Emotional Branding"

The video I watched about "Emotional Branding" really got me thinking about how artist also use the techniques of advertising companies. A big goal of the advertising companies is to connect with the consumer emotionally. Another goal of theirs is to have consumers join a product like you would join a cult by making the consumer feel a belonging. The first artist I think of that has successfully done all of the above is Banksy (a British graffiti artist). He defenitally has a cult fallowing. I think one of the ways he does this is with the emotional connection and political ideas that comes through his art. With these ideas that comes through his art people want to support him because it makes people feel they belong to a cuase. Here below is one of his pieces.

Idiocracy Dollar Bill

I know we are already finished with the dollar bill assignment, but I felt that I still needed to share this photo with all of you. This dollar bill comes from the movie Idiocracy. Which is about a man who travels to the future to see people who actually evolved backwards and became more stupid. I wish I had of thought of putting this up earlier!