Often containing didactic messages intended to persuade audiences into a certain set of behaviors or impress upon them a certain set of ideals, propaganda has been used by human culture and society for thousands of years. With the advent of the printing press in 1436 by a German goldsmith named Johaness Gutenberg, propaganda prints became more and more widespread and delivered with greater ease to the masses. The printing press became widely used throughout the modern world by the beginning of the 20th century and when the United States became entrenched in the world conflict known as World War I in 1917, propaganda became a powerful tool used by the government and private entities alike to rally the population towards a side and ultimately,
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Most of the lines in the print are static, though lines near the knitting portion of the print tend to be more active, conveying a sense of activity and motion (her knitting). Many of the lines are assertive and give depth and color to the print. However, many other lines are subservient and create boundaries and form, such as the lines that create the hands and arms of the woman as well as the lines that create and sense of separation between her neck and her …show more content…
The flag takes up almost all of the pictorial area and, as mentioned before, if proportional to the size of the man, is quite large. The range of size of the objects is minimal with both of the major objects taking up much of the pictorial area. The man is created using very irregular shapes, owing to the realism of the figure, while the flag consists of straight lines. There is little pattern in the man but the flag is of a consistent pattern (alternating red and white vertical bars as well as symmetrically-placed white stars inside of a rectangular field of blue). Almost 100% of the pictorial area is of a solid color and while the figures are not necessarily ornate per se, there is a degree of realism and three-dimensional space being portrayed. Finally, the forms are relatively flat, especially the flag, which is almost completely conveyed as two-dimensional and the man is very obviously the focus of the print, therefore making the emphasis on the center
Most of the lines in the print are static, though lines near the knitting portion of the print tend to be more active, conveying a sense of activity and motion (her knitting). Many of the lines are assertive and give depth and color to the print. However, many other lines are subservient and create boundaries and form, such as the lines that create the hands and arms of the woman as well as the lines that create and sense of separation between her neck and her …show more content…
The flag takes up almost all of the pictorial area and, as mentioned before, if proportional to the size of the man, is quite large. The range of size of the objects is minimal with both of the major objects taking up much of the pictorial area. The man is created using very irregular shapes, owing to the realism of the figure, while the flag consists of straight lines. There is little pattern in the man but the flag is of a consistent pattern (alternating red and white vertical bars as well as symmetrically-placed white stars inside of a rectangular field of blue). Almost 100% of the pictorial area is of a solid color and while the figures are not necessarily ornate per se, there is a degree of realism and three-dimensional space being portrayed. Finally, the forms are relatively flat, especially the flag, which is almost completely conveyed as two-dimensional and the man is very obviously the focus of the print, therefore making the emphasis on the center