Aleksander Rodchenko was a Russian artist born in St Petersburg, that mainly made art for the Soviets. Creating sculptures, photographs, and designing graphics. He invented the art movement Constructivism which was a key design movement in Russia.
He was a painter and graphic designer before becoming a photographer. His photography focused on changing social ideas, being innovative and completely changed his aesthetic since being a painter before the revolution.
His work was also influenced by art styles such as Cubism and Futurism which were both movements who had elements such as geometric shapes displayed on a white or blank background. In 1921 he became a member of the Productivist group, which was focused on showcasing incorporation of art into everyday life. At this point he gave up to focus on graphic design for posters, books and films. He was profoundly influenced by the ideas and practice of the filmmaker Dziga Vertov who he often worked with.
Rodchenko's work has been majorly influential to the art works and movements through out the 20th century.
For Rodchenko his works are a direct inspiration from the social and political movement which was happening at the same time as the Russian Revolution. Alexander Rodchenko used his artworks as propaganda for the Soviet Union and glorified the social, cultural and political views of that political party and pandered to it.
Rodchenko was expressing positive views on the Russian revolution and was communicating that he agreed with the Soviet Union and how they wanted to change society.
The artwork 'Dance' was an oil painting created by Rodchenko in 1915 inspired by the Futurism art and design era. According to Ryan Frank of the 'Graphic Design History' website the idea that the painting is called 'Dance' and that there is no visible dancer on the page indicates the state of the discontent in Russian society as it moved closer to a revolution. (Alexander Rodchenko: Dance, an ‘Objectless’ Composition | GD 203 (ncsu.edu)
The photograph 'Pioneer with a Horn' by Aleksander Rodchenko which was captured in the 1930s.
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist who's art rose to notoriety during the 1960s or around the same time of Andy Warhol. His work became famous through the way he used pop art as a parody. His work was inspired by comic books and advertisements which were also similar to the way that Andy Warhol created and was inspired by commercialized products and celebrity figures.
In a similar way to Warhol. Lichtenstein was often controversial and was described as "disruptive" to the American way of life.
He was also heavily influenced by Allan Kaprow who was a teacher and mentor to Lichtenstein at the University. Through Kaprow, Lichtenstein adopted the pop art style and using cartoon and printing techniques to create his first work. This theme would be present through to 1965, and included the ideas of using highly commercialized imagery to poke fun at consumerism and homemaking.
Roy Lichtenstein uses his artwork to showcase his approval of the social change that was occurring in America during the time and poking fun at the way that tradition influenced society in terms of critiquing elements such as highly commercialized products, celebrity figures and homemaking. Roy Lichtenstein used his own artwork to influence his progressive views. However, the Vietnam War was occurring around the time Lichtenstein created his works so you could imagine the way these artworks were perceived by the American public was extremely divisive.
'Look Mickey' was an oil painting created by Roy Lichtenstein created in 1961 which drew inspiration from both abstract expressionism and pop art works, it is famous for the ironic humour and aesthetic value as well as being the first art work Lichtenstein produced of Ben Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery as a source for a painting.
Takka Takka was another oil painting by Roy Lichtenstein produced in 1962 which also had elements such as speech bubbles like the 'Look Mickey' painting which was produced the past year. The painting also shows that Lichtenstein was also inspired by comic books and incorporating the ideas of parody into his art works. By depicting, explosive weapons which could have been a critique on the American obsession with militarism.
I found it interesting the way that Lichtenstein used speech bubbles and was inspired by the style of comic books in his artworks and I also found it interesting the urge to use bright colours in his artwork which would have collaborated with the changes happening in the United States in the 1960s onwards.
However, I liked the way that Aleksander Rodchenko used a red, white and black colour tone to depict urgency and the seriousness behind his political objections and that this might be something I would use to showcase my enthusiasm towards what I am promoting in my poster.
The use of a same colour palette in terms of the lettering would be similar to Rodchenko's artworks as well as the use of black and white filters on my pictures. However, I have chosen to either do a film debut or music festival advertisement as my poster so I believe I would also incorporate colour in my poster to convey the mood of the event and that young people are my main demographic.
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