James Montgomery Flagg

Henry Flagler was an American capitalist, entrepreneur and industrialist born in Hopewell, New York who founded Standard Oil, an oil refining industry, and bridged and extended his Florida East Coast Railway to Miami in order to make his hotel ventures more accessible. This extension became apparent when Flagler visited St. Augustine, Florida with his second wife viewing it as an endearing location, yet deficient in sufficient resorts and transportation systems. He invested and purchased the Jacksonville, Halifax and St. Augustine railroad which led to the establishment of the Florida East Coast Railway. Flagler saw probable prospect in Florida to be a major tourist attraction. As Flagler’s luxury hotels were expanding and reaching all parts of Florida, the citizens of Florida wanted to acclaim Flagler for building channels, streets, introducing power and water structures/systems and creating a name for Florida. They wished to name the town “Flagler” in honor of him; however he respectfully declined insisting that the town be named Miami- an Indian name originating from the river that the city was established around. Here Flagler opens the Hotel Royal Palm, one of his many hotels stretching over his more than 2 million acres of land owned in Florida. During the next few years of his life, Flagler dedicated himself in emerging and evolving Florida. He conceived the modern Florida that we know of today with most of his infrastructures

One poster encourages support of the war by joining the Air Force with the slogan “Air Defense is Home Defense”. The poster shows the honor of the role with a picture of a family that is enjoying life with airplanes overhead going out to protect the country. Showing just the good part about the honor to serve in the military is effective

The second type of poster was the "Victory" poster. In this type of poster, the United States flag and a solider in uniform were shown to give off a patriotic feeling and accompanied by words such as " America, Now and Forever". These posters also used symbols such as Uncle Sam, the American Eagle, and most of all the Stars and Stripes. The third type of posters, "Careless Talk" posters, were in contrast to "Victory" posters. These posters were designed to keep Americans from talking about the war. Talking may seem as harmless, however American authorities feared that spies would overhear American plans of attack and would relay this information to Axis powers. Although not using nation symbols, symbols such as were death, such as a paratrooper and others with cemetery crosses. These posters commonly used the cause-and-effect idea. An example of this is represented in a poster showing a spaniel gazing over his dead owner's naval collar with the words "...because someone talked" underneath. According to Photoworld, "Because someone talked, the spaniel has lost his master, and it conveys a sense of loss." By perceiving this sense of loss, Americans would give their sympathy to the war and to the men and women who were fighting. To attract public compassion for

The "England Expects National Service" poster branches out to every citizen in the Nation to help strengthen the war effort. The large statue of the soldier shows immense pride for the Nation and it persuades those to join the Navy to fufill the expectations of the government. The techniques used in this poster are "bandwagon" and "plain folks". In addition, the use of painting everyday people below the soldier shows that anyone could join and takes more than just one courageous person to make a difference. This poster shows pride for one's country and is very effective at illustrating the fact that ANYONE can help.

(Just as a side note, I had pictures of the posters in the original paper but couldn 't transfer them to here. The first link in the bibliography has tons of WW1 propaganda posters you can use.)

The artist’s overall message portrayed in the poster is ultranationalism. For instance, the poster depicts a clenched fist symbolizing unity, strength and defiance. Furthermore it conveys feelings of bondage to the Germans who are viewing it because of the chain. As a result of these two images which overshadow the factory in the background, a desire to free the Germans from the Dews plan grows within the hearts of the

World War I was a war that shocked the world and brought about new emotions that created a large wave of “-isms” as well as the “lost generation” of writers. Modern art was catalyzed by World War I and without a thorough study of the various forms of art that resulted from it, modern art and the tremendous effect that World War I had on the people of the world cannot be fully understood. This historical investigation will cover a few aspects of the art that resulted from World War I so that a general idea of the emotions shared by the people of the world can be known. A few paintings that represent specific movements will be studied to understand the artistic movement. A number of museum exhibitions will be studied along with government websites, databases, and museum websites, especially from the Museum of Modern Art.

If I had to go to that specific time in American history, I would have to relearn everything due to the lack of technology we have today. Focusing on the manual arts such as drawing, painting, and writing. Though this being a large dilemma, I would still strive to stay within the design field for I have always had a love for design. Being a Multimedia Illustrator (25M) for the United States Army, I had the great privilege to viewing posters created to help influence the American public. Such posters would read “You talk of sacrifice” with an image caught on concertina wire dead while the bottom of the poster states “He knew the meaning of sacrifice”. Design split into two major groups in the 1940s, which had been World War II designs and advertising (Jenna, 2014) Designs promoting patriotism and advertising promoting products for the economy at the time had optimistic turn at the time (Jenna,

One poster depicts a man with his daughter on his lap asking him “daddy what'd you do to help the great war?” Our own government was trying to guilt people into going to war. I think this picture sort of touches upon the attitude towards joining the war at the time which was joining the war was a “manly” thing to do. The government also used propaganda to make the war seem like an adventure not a bloodbath.

On Thursday, March 16th I attended Dr. Christopher Capozzola’s seminar on the World War I poems. He explored the issue of “Citizenship in Crisis: Centennial Legacies of the First World War.” He began his speech in a very creative way by discussing James Montgomery Flagg’s “Uncle Sam” war campaign posters. By 1917, there were over 4 million copies; making it the fundamental visual for the United States. With his political power stance and face, he gave life to the American by portraying powerfulness, watchfulness, and authoritativeness while also displaying individuality of the citizen and organization of the institution. This poster shouted the American Dream and gave solders a visual of what they were fighting for.

Tremendous technological advance and tremendous slaughter leave an artistic waste land of atrocity, emasculation and pointing posters used to manipulate the public into recruiting men to join the military around the globe. Skilled illustrators in America, less inventive but artistic allegory’s in Canada and France and plain typography in Britain leave many artists busy with supporting the war effort. On the outskirts of war were a contingency of international peoples with little means and a negative view of European culture and war that chose to defect to Switzerland where they created the art movement known as Dada.

The design is a poster, laid out in a narrow vertical format. The title text stands at the top with the s glyphs stretched out to two thirds of the page length, where they draw the eye to an ornate and densely packed font outlining the names of those exhibiting, the date and presumably the location. The colours are subtle so as to recede into the background and allow the solid black of the text to stand out. The pattern in the background consists of three inverted, uneven pentagons; the inverted form creates an arrow like motion and the implied movement, aids in drawing the eye toward the bottom of the poster.

This mural in located in part of down town for everyone to see as they drive by the building. The World War I mural shows a scroll list of names on many different parts of this painting, while the middle of this mural shows a man standing next to a tall cement object. This object looks to have names on it, and is located in what used to be the old downtown. I chose this mural due to its history behind the painting. This mural allows for all to see the men and women who served to protect us to whom lived in Prophetstown Illinois. I feel that this mural is a form of art to which is commemorative of those who stood tall and proud to fight. The World War I mural gives us allows for the public to honor and remember those would protected our

Bloodshed and the tyranny of battle has inspired art since the beginning of recorded history. In essence though, the main purpose of war is to protect or enhance the liberties of the people and their families fighting. Due to the complex and utter horrific experiences that happen during battle, naturally people want to dedicate a long standing piece of work to honor those who have endured those traumatic experiences for the greater good. Two examples of art being centered around war are the “Star Spangled Banner,” by Francis Scott Key, and a sculpture entitled “The Fountain of Eternal Life,” by Marshall Fredericks. When these two works are broken down into their key elements it is apparent that there are key similarities between the images these works create, and the reasons they were created; in addition to their connection to civil liberties. One must consider the differences between the works as well, such as the mediums in which they were created, the theme of the works, and what they were dedicated to. To be concise, both Key and Fredericks created two extremely different works of art that have overlapping ideals, and have a strong connection to civil liberties.

The two world wars in the history have been inextricably linked to Germany's ambitions. These wars not only caused an indelible trauma in the whole world but also left deep bitterness and lessons for the German people. At that time, however, there was a small group of the German artist upstream, strongly against the government's evil deeds, expressed their condemnation and discontent for the war through their artworks, such as Max Beckmann and Otto Dix. This article will use Max Beckmann’s “The Large Operation” and Otto Dix’s “Der Krieg (The War)” as examples, to specifically discuss how these two artists changed their drawing style in a more intense way in order to create an impressed depiction of the bloodshed and cruelty of the war for the viewers.