We've started researching the Artwork and themes within the exhibition and discussing ideas around protest and revolution. We also plan to try out some creative ways to spread ideas and messages and looking at the way artists engage with social and political ideas (in particular looking at the Poster) and the impact technology has had on the way we empower, communicate and organise.
First up we took a look at some of the posters that will be shown as part of the exhibition. Looking at the images the group were asked to decipher ..
When do you think they were made
What country do you think they came from
Who were they created by? ( a group, a government, an organisation )
What was the aim of the poster?
What tone is used, for example, persuasive, idealistic, angry, moral outrage, a Sense of truth or justice
And lastly how they were made? What media was used? Do they look massed produced or created by an individual?
It was really interesting trying to place the posters, some where relatively easy, whilst others had us lost. It was also a chance for some of the group to show of their historical and political knowledge and for others of us, to purely guess.
We then feed back our ideas and I reveiled the background and aim of the posters based on the interpretation that went with the V&A exhibition.
We then looked at what themes we thought united particular posters, there were some that were obviously from the government, depicting leaders as heroes or advocating a certain way of life, others focused on corporations with immoral or unethical practices whilst others focused on empowering certain groups of people.
We grouped the posters into our own mini exhibition and then looked at the themes that the V&A had used . Most overlapped with our own themes for example "All power to the people" which bought together posters about women's and gay rights.
We left with a really good sense of the exhibitions content and with some thoughts about how posters can be used to spread ideas and convey ideas Next week we will be putting some of this into practice by creating our own manifesto for an ideal World.
Image credits
Polling Station
Unknown Artist
1909-1913
London
Museum no: E.644-1972
Given
by Miss A.E. Norris
©Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Freiheit
Friede Arbeit (Freedom Peace Work)
Walenty Zietara, for
the German Democratic Party
1919
Munich
Lithograph
Museum no: E.2-2004
Gift of the American Friends
of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri
Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
©Victoria and Albert Museum, London
慶祝中華人民共和國成立 (Celebrating the Establishment of the
People’s Republic of China)
Unknown
designer
1950
China
Relief-print
Museum no: FE.20-1994
©Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1959 1969 Décimo Aniversario del Triunfo de la Rebelión Cubana (1959 1969 Tenth Anniversary of the Triumph of the
Cuban Rebellion)
René
Mederos
1969
Cuba
E.169-2014
Screenprint
Gift of Michael Tyler
©
Victoria and Albert Museum, London/The Estate of René Mederos
There’s
a Credit Crunch, Not a Creative Crunch.
Aida Wild
2011
London
Museum
no. E.256-2014
Screenprint
Given
by Catherine Flood
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Aida Wild
