Pictorial Modernism Project
cmackPictorial Modernism
After World War 1 Cubist idea's inspired a new direction of Pictorial images often known as Art Deco
By Cade Mack
Plakatstil
The common characteristics of the Plakatstil style are bold eye-catching lettering with flat colors. Shapes and objects are simplified, and the composition of the art focuses one central object
Made by Lucian Bernhard In 1908 - Stiller letters and shoe is simplistic and focuses on the directly/only on the Stiller Shoe.
Priester Matches Poster
Created by Lucian Bernhard in 1906 who won first place prize in a poster competition sponsored by berlin’s priester matches company. It ended up initiating the new form of designing called “Plakatstil”.
Poster Goes to WAr
Poster Published July 6, 1916 Portrait of “Uncle Sam” created by James Montgomery Flagg created to encourage recruitment in the United States Army during World War I.
Art Deco
Style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I.
Poster for North Star Paris-to-Amsterdam night train (1927) which includes many new tools were used to draw the eye and attention of other by using ZigZags, streamlining, and san-serif lettering which created a very unified message.
1920s & 1930's
Cinema poster for Metropolis (1926) - Designed by Heinz Schulz-Neudamm in
1926 for the movie Metropolis
Arturo Ballester Marco
Born in Valencia, Spain was an artist and illustrator who was most known for his Spanish Civil War Posters.
