This paper will closely examine and analyse two images, one from the 20th century and one from the 21st century. Both of these images are of a propagandistic nature and promote a political cause through the use of visual culture and rhetoric, both vital skills when it comes to the art of persuasion. Visual culture presents itself as a very important catalyst in regards to communicating an ideology or message to a receiver. Whether it be through a community or on a global scale visual culture is the shared practice of visual and textual representation. In general, if a messaged is designed to heavily influence and or persuade its intended viewer it is seen to be propaganda. The images selected in this study are both forms of sociological and
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This meant that many women had to step in and take on jobs in industries that were dirty, noisy and something they had never encountered before in their lives. Rosie the Riveter was the star of a government campaign aimed at recruiting females workers. Normal Rockwell was a very well known 20th century painter and illustrator. Many of his paintings have become popular symbols of American Values and American popular culture. Rockwell managed to create a visual to the phenomenon that was to become Rosie the Riveter. He portrays her as an androgynous figure, clad in dark blue work overalls echoing the colours of the American flag. Her work shirt with its sleeved rolled up show off her strong muscular arms, symbolising power and a sense of authority. Seated, with an air of practiced confidence, she leans against a backdrop of a rippling American flag. On her lap she nonchalantly balances a heavy riveting machine and a lunchbox with her name on it just to make extra sure that the viewer of this piece knows that this is in fact a painting of the famous ‘Rosie’. At the bottom of the painting Rosie’s feet rest firmly on a yellow copy the book, ‘Mein Kampf’ as a sign of disrespect to the pages within the hardback and the books author, Hitler. Additionally at the top of the painting her open visor mimics an angels halo which ads to her symbolic, holy identity. The rise en scene of this painting impresses even on the most basic and clueless of viewers that this women is of great significance of the American identity of World War
This meant that many women had to step in and take on jobs in industries that were dirty, noisy and something they had never encountered before in their lives. Rosie the Riveter was the star of a government campaign aimed at recruiting females workers. Normal Rockwell was a very well known 20th century painter and illustrator. Many of his paintings have become popular symbols of American Values and American popular culture. Rockwell managed to create a visual to the phenomenon that was to become Rosie the Riveter. He portrays her as an androgynous figure, clad in dark blue work overalls echoing the colours of the American flag. Her work shirt with its sleeved rolled up show off her strong muscular arms, symbolising power and a sense of authority. Seated, with an air of practiced confidence, she leans against a backdrop of a rippling American flag. On her lap she nonchalantly balances a heavy riveting machine and a lunchbox with her name on it just to make extra sure that the viewer of this piece knows that this is in fact a painting of the famous ‘Rosie’. At the bottom of the painting Rosie’s feet rest firmly on a yellow copy the book, ‘Mein Kampf’ as a sign of disrespect to the pages within the hardback and the books author, Hitler. Additionally at the top of the painting her open visor mimics an angels halo which ads to her symbolic, holy identity. The rise en scene of this painting impresses even on the most basic and clueless of viewers that this women is of great significance of the American identity of World War