World War II Propaganda Art

During World War II propaganda was ubiquitous. It consisted of a wide range of carriers including leaflets, radio, television, and most importantly posters. Posters were used based on their appeal: they were colorful, creative, concise, and mentally stimulating. Posters often portrayed the artist's views on the war. They demonstrated the artist concern for the war, their hopes for the war, and reflected the way enemies were envisioned. Posters also show a nations political status: they reflect a nations allies and enemies, how the nation saw itself, and its greatest hopes and fears of the war.

For centuries women have been depicted as weak beings when compared to men. In the early days, women were not allowed to go to work because men did not think they had the same abilities as they did. The role of a woman was to stay in the house, cook, clean, and take care of the children. However, through the World War II propaganda poster exclaiming “We Can Do It!” featuring Rosie the Riveter, women were able to prove that they had the same abilities as men and began a revolution in the U.S. workforce.

During WWII, Great Britain would create propaganda posters to try to convince ordinary citizens to help the military effort in some way.

n World War II, Great Britain used propaganda to inspire and persuade citizens to aid with the war. The war started in 1939. Germany started bombing Great Britain in the late 1940's. They implemented the National Service Act in December of 1941. Great Britain used posters to catch the attention of the citizens. The techniques used to catch the citizens attention are diction, imagery with color, and parallelism.

During World War II, propaganda was used for a number of reasons, it not only showed how anyond could be of use to the war efforts, but it also showed that every person could contribute as well. These posters empowered everyone to stand behind their nation's Army, and to continue contributing to the war efforts. The posters showed that everyone is needed, that anyone could make a difference, and some even emphasized certain values to those who are already helping with the war effort.

During World War II, propaganda was ubiquitous. It consisted of a wide range of carriers including leaflets, radio, television, and most importantly posters. Posters were used based on their appeal: they were colorful, creative, concise, and mentally stimulating. Posters often portrayed the artist's views on the war. Also in WWII propaganda, artists used heroes like Captain America using text, color, and imagery to persuade people and support the war, troops, and overall the country.

Wartime relations can cause a country to get down as we saw in the United States during Vietnam to a point where a large portion of the public doesn’t support the war. One of the ways countries, like the United States, curb this is by creating propaganda. In World War II, the United States used the propaganda to get the public behind the war effort and to unite the country. This propaganda included posters to advertise,

Art shows the perspective of those responding to emotional and traumatic life experiences by…giving visual of events that happened during World War 1 or poetry to trigger the minds of the audience who dont understand it. In the art piece The Twins was made in 1916 by Robert W Service), it shows how the art piece was made in the middle of war when soldiers were being drafted to help defeat enemy. It was showing how people were trying to show nationalism by joining war and other decided not to do. It also shows how many people risked their lives during World War 1 even though their family members didn't care. The second art piece is called Blood and Iron” (1916) Charles Ernest Butler. In the description box it says “The work shows no obvious hero to resolve the chaos and destruction.

During the time of World War II, Abstract Expressionism was one of the most popular arts movements. Abstract Expressionism developed in New York around the 1940s. Most of the art works that were created reflected on the artists’ emotion after the war. These paintings were not meant to be realistic but to express people’s inner emotions, which people were in not in favor of these arts pieces. Some of the most popular artists that were famous for their art pieces were Jackson Pollock, Archlie Gorky, and Mark Rothko. Abstract expressionism art has helped these artiest express their emotions in ways that cannot be understood because emotions are not concrete.

Creations of art during The Great Depression couldn’t have been more perfect than the works by Maynard Dixon and Grant Wood. In a style dubbed social realism Maynard Dixon created Springtime on Bear Mountain which depicted flat land in the foreground with

During the time this painting was created World War II was happening and the United States treasury needed to raise billions of dollars of War Bonds in order to help the government with the war effort, this painting clearly represents the American Culture and the huge help of artists all over America, just like Abraham Rattner, that helped encourage people support of World War II by creating creative paintings such as this one that say “buy bonds.”

The theme that struck my interest in chapter 1 was Anti-War Modernism. I can personally relate to the art work depicted during this time. According to slide 41, artists who were impacted by WWI expressed their feelings through art. For example, "the

I want to explore on the graphic aspects in wartime. How creativity was accentuated so many trendsetting depending on the situation, because of the need of the human being express itself. Throughout history created posters that were marking generations. How graphic design evolved right through these wars. I want to write about the great impact that graphic design had in the great wars of history.

Propaganda was a prominent form of advertising during the Second World War. Artists, worked created pieces to convince people to join movements. The poster by Miller J. Howard, was aimed to convince women that they could be part of the labor force, specifically in the factory sector. The poster contains bright colors such as blues, reds, and yellows to attract attention. Miller used bright colors to create and image that captivated women’s attention and convinced them that they could also do what back then was considered a men’s job. Using bright colors, reflects the level of urgency the government had to recruit more women into the labor force. The woman’s pose in the poster is another technique used to make a convincing statement. The poster features a women flexing her arm, which represent the women’s strength and capacity to fulfill the positions left by the men who went to fight the war. The women portrayed in the poster, is depicted as patriotic based on the colors of her clothing. In the poster, the artist displayed a slogan that reads “We Can Do It”. The poster has all the aspects of the type of advertising used during the war. By using slogans, the artist made his point straight forward. The artist made his point so everybody would be able to understand it and spread the word, which at this time was

Additionally to many other propaganda instruments, the Ministry also decided to print posters that could be put up everywhere in Britain. Three posters where finally approved, one of them being the now famous "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON" poster. However at the start of WW2, only the posters with the inscriptions "YOUR COURAGE YOUR CHEERFULNESS YOUR RESOLUTION WILL BRING US VICTORY" and "FREEDOME IS PERIL DEFEND IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT" where put up as they where seen more suitable for the bombing campaign of the Germans. The third only was meant to be put up when the Germans invaded the mainland of Britain. The simple message in a clear font combined with the royal colour and the crown save the last bit of British moral. The Invasion never took place, which led to the posters not being used and ultimately most of them ending destroyed after the