War Pictures

Each picture has someone in the center in order to make the viewer sense the importance of the picture. The pictures that come out at you are the ones of the people pointing at you, or gesturing to you. The ones that pull you in are the ones that aren't looking at you, or there is something more going on in the picture. I think the designers made things come out at you just to grab your attention. Each of these posters consist of things that catch your eye. They were trying to produce propaganda, which is something to tries to get your attention about war and pull you into the war.

You need to know the situation, the problem, and the point of the war in order to understand in depth, what the posters want. But if you have no idea, you might see the poster and just be like "okay, i support the war!" You need to know your audience and you need to know what they might know in order to get the right affect.

It wouldn't be able to show exactly what you want if you used a photograph instead of a painting. You can make a painting anything you want, but sometimes photographs are stubborn and you can't bend and twist them as you might want. It would make it more realistic, but it might also hurt the affect of it.