Thursday 4 October 2012

Here we have a poster design by Johnson Banks. The brief given to them was to create a series of posters that represent how British art has changed over the years and I think that the poster does just that. on the left we see an 18th century painting by George Stubbs who also happens to be the same artist behind a certain family portrait that Josiah Wedgwood didn't approve of. The Stubbs paining shows the dark warmth of classic British art which totally juxtaposes and contrasts with the modern day Damian Hirst 'Formaldehyde sheep' with its cold, clinical and scientific style. This contrast in both classic and modern day art is also shown in the typography of the poster where we see the word "Britain" boxed off and styled with two very different fonts, on the left a classic 18th century font and on the right a solid sans-serif font which represents how even the art of type has changed over the centuries.

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