Inspirational & Informative Artwork
On researching my major project I came across a political cartoonist who creates images in reply to current world political stories. Carlos Latuff has created artwork which focuses on issues of War and and other stories which he seems to have passionate opinions on. The images often carry with them a strong message with a hint of dark humour to help convey his point. Similarly to the early propaganda posters I had discussed earlier- Latuff also uses a mixture of colour and text to help anchor his message. The creator of these cartoons seems to be extensively informed in politics and on one of his blog pages he urges – “All of my artworks published in this blog are COPYLEFT. You are strongly encouraged to forward them to people and reproduce them in your website/magazine/bulletin/poster/t-shirt/etc.”
I am hoping to be able to create a similar use of visual and text to anchor my desired message in the images I am hoping to create, it seems that the intended audience for this work is people who already have a base of political knowledge.
