Aspects of Government and Political Influences

The influences can range from a variety of sources, such as in the style of Shepard Fairey using the Obama image for his Hope poster, or when he also used Che Guevara as a campaign poster to spread the work of his poster exhibition. another way it is shown is in stencil style graffiti as Mr. Brainwash uses for his Marylin Monroe style presidential candidates, or by his version of Obama as superman.

Path to work

Another website which i found useful was: http://www.noisefestival.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=240&Itemid=87 . I found this more useful for possible routes i could take my work rather than artist research as it shows the work of several different artists and often they only have single pieces of work which relate to the theme i have chosen.

Mr brainwash political images

This shows four influential politicians of America during 2008, as this was created not long before the presidential election. As you can see their images have been added to the iconic image of Marylin Monroe as she had blonde hair and commonly wore vibrant red lipstick.

Artist Research

As i have previously looked at Shepard Fairey and World War II propaganda posters i drifted away from my artist research a little bit so i found another artist who is somewhat political, in the sense that some of his street art is based upon political figures; mainly from the United States.
The Link to his site is:
http://www.mrbrainwash.com/home.html

Impression of Guernica

I looked at the way Picasso worked on his painting of Guernica, i found it to be a very detailed and creative image. The main way in which he was influenced by this was the bombing of Guernica, so in a way Picasso's work can link in with the work which i have been doing on the way in which the government influences art; this is because it would have been a decision made by the government of Germany and Italy to bomb the town of Guernica and for the military to bomb a site they need to be given the "green light" so to speak before bombing a site.Also it relates to the government in another way, as they commissioned the mural for the display at the World's fair 1937.

 
Guernica was a piece which intertwines with the Spanish Civil war, it was a small town which was bombed during this war and many civilians died during this bombing. This is Pablo Picasso's interpretation of the events which unfolded at the time, although Picasso was not often influenced by war or suffering (at least in my opinion) this shows exactly what he thought would be an accurate representation of the incident. It is debatable that this is a biased painting as Picasso himself was Spanish so this may have effected him as much as it affected the people of Guernica.

This shows how they can rally the potential troops by making them feel patriotic about what their ancestors achieved against Napoleon Bonaparte. This is also how they view Adolf Hitler, as Napoleon wanted to rule the world by expanding the empire, this is similar to the way Hitler acted during the second World War against Russia.

This is a draft poster to try and tempt young men to join Russia's army to try and defeat Nazi Germany, after they tried to occupy the "Motherland". This is what Russian's refer to as their home country as they believe it is what is the origin of all their life.

This is a 1929 propaganda poster for the Nazi party this is one of the most effective as it was released just before the election in Saxony it depicts the slogan of break The Dawes Chains, which was an agreement based on payments from world war 2.

This shows how women can play a part in the war as during the time of world war 2 women were not allowed on the front line and so many women were given jobs working on creating weapons or transmitting messages by Morse code to soldiers in Germany, and this gave women belief that they were making a big difference to the war.

This shows how most Americans of the time believed the Nazis and Imperial army to be as they believed their attacks were unnecessary and showing that working Americans who were not at war could still play a part in the eradication of the army of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

This is an American World War 2 poster depicting what they believed to be an appropriate representation of Japanese people at the time, most likely in retaliation of Pearl Harbor, it also implies two messages one for to try and make American citizens to waste less material so materials can be sent to the troops on the frontline.

This shows a Russian version of propaganda poster during the first world war, it shows how the Russian government of the time wanted the army/military to be seen as people who will help those in need back home in Russia.

This is a modern version of wartime interpretation of world war 2 propaganda posters with the iconic Cuban revolutionist Che Guevara, with the iconic Andre the giant image by Shepard Fairy in the star.

This is a political version of a propaganda poster but with the twist of trying to get people to recognize what needs to be done about the way in which people aimlessly waste energy by leaving electronics switched on overnight or just constantly left on without concern.

This is an interpretation of Shepard Fairey's hope poster with a more modern twist, as it depicts the anonymous person who has recently been hacking various government websites.

Introduction

I am focusing on how the government and politics effect the way art is now. an example of this would be Shepard Fairey's street art propaganda posters such as obey posters of President Obama, he also made some posters for an exhibition which resembled Russian and communist propaganda posters of the Second world war.