Image Analysis (Case Studies)

•  Symbolic colour (representative of blood, violence and Labour)
• Screenprint
• 1968
• Motif - housing (often seen in protest posters) weapon (usually a gun) connotations of violence. 
• Splitting the building in half (relates to point above)
• This particular image is still relevant today - relates to Varoom quotes about artists getting commissions for construction sites to distract people.

•  Contemporary editorial illustration 
• Digital 
• 2017
• Minimal colour again 
• Big hand/fist - similar motif to posters from 60s.
• Pinstripe suit is a representation of wealth.

•  Screenprint 
• 1968 
• Symbolic clenched fit motif 
• Text is easy to read from a distance (bold, capital letters)
• Slogan is straight to the point (like many of the 1960s protest posters).

•  France 1968
• 2 colour screen print 
• Glasses, suit and large mouth - representation of rich, 'man in charge', capitalism.

•  France, 1968
• Screenprint 
• Considered text placement inside arms choking the man thinning his not
• Composition - 3 arms (rule of 3, central placement of hat character)
• The main point of text 'SOLIDAIRES' bigger than other parts - shows importance - most readable from a distance. 

• 1968-71
• Screen print 
• Use of text is the focal point of this image 
• The sentence is extremely bold - risky thing to say (especially when looking back and reading it today)