As the world entered WWII America was producing propaganda posters as a reaction to Hitler and the war. The designs of these posters were simplistic, straightforward, and dramatic contrasts in colors. These posters included some imagery that spoke louder than words and focused mainly on getting a message across. These posters grab your attention through their simplistic nature and eat to read text. Even after the war, Bayer was producing posters that continued to grab his audience's attention through simplistic imagery. After exploring what the Kitsch art movement was, I realized it was an art movement that failed and did not make it through the rejection. It might have been intended to be a new art movement, but for some reason, people disliked this movement more than any other one. The styles were called 'tacky and poor quality'. Some work from the Kitsch movement seems to appear experimental as people began exploring different areas of art.
One poster that really stuck out to me was the poster for the U.S. Office of War Information produced by Ben Shahn (located on page 345 in the book). This poster is very powerful with the way the designer uses imagery. The way this poster speaks truth into people lives is quite different from posters today. This poster really tries to bring in your emotions and get you involved in the situation to support something. If imagery and posters were created today that grabbed your attention like this poster does, I bet more people would be supporting the war efforts.
One question that I pose and might be answered through presentation on Friday is why was the Kitsch movement rejected? It seems that every movement was initially rejected and people were outraged by them. This movement in specific caused people to reject it and never give it a chance based on what I discovered. What was so bad about some of the designs?
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