The Art of Impact- Posters and Prints
Today with a few clicks of the mouse, any message can be broadcast to millions in a millisecond.
Before the internet, social media, digital graphic design software and artificial intelligence, getting your message out there took real cohesion and organisation.
Since the advent of massed produced lithographic advertising in the late 1800’s, posters have played a role in sending all kinds of messages. The Vienna Secession was a movement of artists that broke away from the art establishment. Similar to Art Nouveaux, the style permeated art, design and culture throughout Austria and Germany. Possibly its most famous exponent was Gustav Klimt, who’s distinct style can be seen in the secessionist posters created to advertise the movements expositions.
Political and revolutionary movements throughout history have used posters as a cheap and effective means of communication, using the streets as their megaphone.
“Nothing captures the passion and spontaneity of protest like handmade signage. Often the urgency behind a protest means you just have to grab a marker and start writing.”
Striking designs and simple slogans were a potent medium for conveying a powerful message to an often illiterate peasantry during the Russian and other revolutions.
“The posters produced by the Atelier Populaire are weapons in the service of the struggle and are an inseparable part of it.”
Some of our posters are in the collection for the sake of art alone. Many of the horticultural, botanical and animal images are from hand painted plates and collated from archives and collections that have opened their digital archives.
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Rainbow Chard£10.00 -
Tubers and Roots£10.00 -
Sunflower and Poppies£10.00 -
CND£10.00 -
Free Gaza Now£10.00 -
Freedom is in Peril£10.00 -
3rd Festival Internacional Do Mundo Celta£10.00 -
Sundance Film Festival£10.00 -
Woodstock Festival£10.00
