Entry 3 - Unit 2 Lecture 1

• Posters are the main form of advertising.
• Cubism relationship between relationship and respresentation
• Synthetic Cubism - pure shape and graphic essence
• Plakastil - Synthetic cubist poster
• Futurism - pure form and color. Destroys traditional forms.
  
• WWI - Poster period over
• War Posters used to market war.
• War Posters - Realism vs Abstraction
• Structural linguistics
  
• Stephane Mallarme - Symbolist Poet
• Futurism puts type design on the battlefiled of avant garde
• Filippo Marienetti breaks sentence into pieces
  
• DADA - develops spontaneously because of WWI
• Berlin DADA - More political
• Propaganda
• Kurt Schwitters - Develops one man art movement. MERZ
• Surrealism
• Max Urnst - Photo montage similar to DADA
• Man Ray - Photographic Surrealist.

I felt many of the images I saw tonight were very inspiring. In particular the ones created within the realm of the DADA movement and Surrealist movement. I feel design is heading in many directions at once these days. But I see a lot of revival of these old ideas and the DADA aesthetic. I am curious about looking into this aesthetic further, for my own purposes. I really like the collages done by Max Ernst and I would like to try something similar sometime.