Soviet Propaganda

Continuing with the propaganda style from my initial idea i began to look at soviet propaganda and how thse posters managed to put their message accross. Their use of block red was very prominant.

Talk to Frank.

Another idea for the project i have is for resistance against drugs. A good place to lern about drugs and their effects was the talk frank website. I was able to learn slang meanings for drugs hat made it able to create interesting metaphors for my work.

http://www.talktofrank.com/

Bielski Partisans

The Bielski partisans was an organisation of Jewish partisans who rescued Jews from extermination and fought against the Nazi German occupiers and their collaborators in the vicinity of Nowogródek (Navahrudak) and Lida in German-occupied Poland (now western Belarus).

Under their protection, 1,213 Jews survived the war, making it one of many remarkable rescue missions in the Holocaust. The group spent more than two years living in the forests and was initially organized by members of the Bielski family.

Defiance

Another good idea spanned from the film defiance, where the polish people were driven into the woods by the nazi's. I thought it portrayed resistance really well.

Propaganda Posters

Propaganda Posters also show another form of resistance to do with the war, and these polish examples are great.

Kathe Kollwitz - Resistance

Here is an etching done by kathe kollwitz, who was working around the same time as the first world war. A majority of her wor was created about the war, and the effects caused by the war. I feel her work is relevant to the work i am doing regarding resistance. This piece is called Uprising.

NOBROW, Leah Hayes

A beautifully drawn and produced magazine called nobrow. The book is filled with loads of interesting drawings, as well as bein printed in a very nic way onto a god quality paper.

Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey's work is quite similar to Tom Gauld's work, in sense that they both use very intricate, definate lines to produce their line and tone. Gorey's work definately has more depth to it, and is built up of a lot more pen strokes. It is again similar to how i have been working, and the direction i would like to take my work in.

Tom Gauld

I looked at Tom Gauld's work for inspiration as i found his style of drawing very unique and very intricate. It is quite similar to the way i have been drawing recently when doing my own work, especially for the Artists' Book brief