Bauhaus / Propaganda posters

Bauhaus

Bauhaus was motivated in its creation due to the "soullessness of manufacturing". There were fears in the art world that art would lose its purpose completely in society. Creativity and manufacturing were drifting and through Bauhaus it was aimed to unite the two again. "Rejuvenating design for everyday life".
To do this Bauhaus abandoned a lot of the old academic traditions of fine art education but keeping some such as the intellectual and theoretical pursuits. Fine art and craft were brought together with the goal of fixing a modern industrial society. In doing this Bauhaus effectively held its own and crafts became on par with fine art. Bauhaus paved the way for many artists in the late 20th century.
On a personal level I love the Bauhaus design and reasoning. Looking at the images above you can see they all speak for themselves and stand out. The use of bright colours isn't needed all the time because the piece is that strong itself. I like how it's a combination of things, not just an image, it often combines text as well which obviously fits perfect with out project creating posters.

Propaganda Posters

The government needed to recruit a lot of soldiers in a short period of time. They tried extremely hard to persuade people to think a certain way, what the public thought of the war really mattered. To do this, they created posters. Some made the army look exciting, like no other job could contend, others said it was a duty or made it sound like only the weak and useless didn't help. 

All though the story behind the posters is rather sad, the work itself is actually fairly good. Theres strong line work and real art work put into these posters and although now you might think the posters lied, they did work. 

Often the use of bright red against duller or plainer backgrounds worked well and I think with the thought behind flags the colours were often incorporated. You will notice as well that a lot of the posters are very simple, there doesn't need to be a crowded bunch of information squashed on the page, a simple phrase and an eye-catching image or colour does the job.