ALEXANDER APSIT
Alexander was popular for his revolutionary war posters. His style was very realistic and appealing to the people of that time period. He tries to make his images pop out of the posters and include the viewer, and very well succeeds at it. In the last poster he created imagry that was very patriotic and showed war as more of an adventure and being heroic. It really shows off his ability to make the poster seem almost 3D the way the horse is jumping into the border. The Top two posters are still of the heroic style but in a satirical fashion. The first one is a result of what those they were opposing at the time were trying to do to his people and enslave them, he was depicting what the outcome of the war would be like if they lost. The second one shows a large man and some smaller soldiers trying to fend themselves against a many headed serpent beast aka their enemy in the war. Even though the beast is not real and an exaggeration, he still maintains his realistic style.
Stefan Sagmeister
Sagmeister uses text in all of his most prominent works. The first picture is an album cover he designed with the lyrics all over the musicians face, which led him to creating the third picture. This one was very radical, it used words as does most of his work, but instead of using graphics, he used his own body and had someone carve the words into his body. He is very selective in what he calls art and style, choosing to not follow the crowd. The second picture also has a meaning to it, like most of his works. He wants to reach people sensually. Showing that despite saying 'always', sometimes things are exaggerated and isn't going to last forever or always.
Part Ni!
Both were very colorful and vivid. The paintings by Toulouse-Latrec used a wide variety of colors in most of his paintings, especially the dancing girls he painted from the night clubs. The actors from the movie Moulin Rouge had bright, colorful, and vastly decorated costumes like the show girls in the paintings. Although, on the contrary while everyone in the movie was smiling and laughing and having a good time; not everyone in Toulouse-Latrec's paintings were smiling. Some were sad or just stiff faced. His posters were very flat and used mostly line to define the objects and people. He used patterning and details, as well as the usage of leaving some lines loose and allowing your imagination to fill in the blanks, due to some influence from japanese artwork which he richly enjoyed collecting and looking at.
This painting reminds me of all the colors and the large dance scene they had, especially when the center stage was on the main girl of the Moulin Rouge. Everyone looks happy and is having a good time.
This poster shows how the girls were sort of like whores and had to make their patrons happy in order to receive business. "Kissing up to the customers". And the guy in this poster resembles the main owner from the movie who played a sort of love scene? with the main girl as a part of the dancing sketch.
