#propaganda style poster

[prolitarart]

Viva New Vegas

(Repost of very old work)

[mxmade-up]

thinking of doodling a big piece of the aspec mafia

rb with your weapon of choice to be included

(there is no guarantee I'll draw this fr I don't decide if my wips are finished)

EDIT: If you are an artist feel free to add yourself once the wips start being posted, and if you have a sona add a picture of them in your rb. Otherwise, I will just use your pfp

[dailydegurechaff]

Today's Daily Degurechaff is… chibi tanya

[cartoonpigeon]

Dr. Gauls costuming was absolutely amazing like the visceral representation of the blood on her hands (and the way it seems to soak into her clothing!!!!! staining her!!!!!!!!! the way it sometimes seemed to come from her) during lab scenes and the way she's the only person who's truly dressed in the famous clothing style that the capital becomes known for (and we can assume that she probably had some influence on that fashion!!!!)

[sakura-rose12]

Spirit Peacemaker at the Battle of Stromfels Pass:

Was it worth it?

She knows her answer.

Another commission!

@esperqm

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/always-somethin.73652/

[uraandri]

idk where this idea that women's public toilets are all roses and squeaky clean surfaces because these bitches at my university cannot piss into the giant hole that is the fucking squat toilet and flushing is altogether a foreign concept apparently

[thilsiktonix]

haven't posted much lately, so here's some more recent art!

medium : watercolor

medium : alcohol marker on stone paper

[clovis-rhebis]

Inktober Day 7 - Pierrot Androgyne. If I did drag this is what i imagine i’d try to look like, a genderless clown. My dad says it looks like a soviet propaganda poster, so i’d be a genderless communist clown.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

WHO REMEMBERS WHEN NAZI GERMANY BOMBED FOR PEACE? -- NEITHER DID RICHARD NIXON.

NOTE: Once again, happy posthumous 111th birthday, "Tricky Dick," who sent 21,000+ American soldiers to their deaths in his first term alone. What a wonderful President.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on an anti-Vietnam War poster titled "Nixon's Peace," c. 1972, artwork by Cuban artist Lazaro Abreu for OSPAAAL (The Organziation of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa, and Latin America).

POSTER OVERVIEW: Depiction of President Nixon waving a small Swastika/Nazi flag while riding a B-52 bomber above the wartorn country of Vietnam and a visible Cambodia. This graphic design piece was made near the end of the Vietnam War era, and it tells the audience that Nixon's peace is obtained by war.

NIXON/VIETNAM DEBACLE: "In the 1968 election, Republican Richard Nixon claimed to have a plan to end the war in Vietnam, but, in fact, it took him five years to disengage the United States from Vietnam.

Nixon provided the South Vietnamese army with new training and improved weapons and tried to frighten the North Vietnamese to the peace table by demonstrating his willingness to bomb urban areas and mine harbors. He also hoped to orchestrate Soviet and Chinese pressure on North Vietnam.

The most controversial aspect of his strategy was an effort to cut the Ho Chi Minh supply trail by secretly bombing North Vietnamese sanctuaries in Cambodia and invading that country and Laos. The U.S. and South Vietnamese incursion into Cambodia in April 1970 helped destabilize the country, provoking a bloody civil war and bringing to power the murderous Khmer Rouge."

-- VIETNAM PROPAGANDA (Poster gallery/collection)

Sources: www.vietnampropaganda.com/product/nixons-peace-2

[pissvortex]

ethically creating AI art by only asking it to generate images in the style of 1950s Maoist propaganda posters

[juice-enjoyer]

wanted to make a propaganda style poster of them..

[five-one-two-station]

Everybody should have their own fun, and this isn't trying to harsh anybody's buzz, but I find the impulse to make your own cutesy/badass Replika oc doing funny or heroic or badass things a little odd. Like, that character you designed as a super badass soldier, or well-armed and armored steely eyed cop type... who would they have been built to fight or police exactly? Remember who all those guns and weapons were intended for use on?

I know we're all sick of discourse over who "gets" the game, and I'm by no means scolding anybody for something that harmless, but what's interesting to me is the sense that designing overtly "cool" Replika personas and OCs, complete with the propaganda poster style imagery, feels a little...

I mean, bluntly, it's like the in-world propaganda worked, unironically, on some level, for many people. Kolibris aren't scary, they're whimsical and fun! Storches aren't notably cruel enforcers and chain gang drivers, they're Protektors! Falke isn't a camp commandant, she's a beautiful angel!

The Replikas aren't cool and heroic figures in the reality of the game. They're the carefully crafted organs of a system of control so dreadful it could do what it did to Elster and Ariane. They're victims to that system themselves too, sure - and humanising them is a nuanced and valuable observation of how totalitarian regimes maintain themselves - but that doesn't negate the fact they're also the ones who operate, enforce and perpetuate it, a big part of what the game knows and communicates about such societies. It's notable that the game makes it clear few, if any, of the Replikas actually buy into the Nation as an ideal at all - they enforce it no less pitilessly anyway, incapable or unsafe to imagine anything else.

Their affectations, pasttimes, trinkets, and even affections for each other, all serve to draw a stark contrast to how callously they regard the gestalts they keep suppressed. Their disposability is something they're conscious and fearful of themselves, but fail to recognise as a commonality with the people they brutalise every day, their business as usual. The only grief, tragedy or suffering they acknowledge is their own - they have no regard for any such things in the humans they have... well, dehumanised.

But S-23 Sierpinski was such a hellhole for most of its denizens under "normal" conditions that the nightmare it becomes is arguably an improvement; if only because there are fewer people left now to suffer it. There's a dark poetry here - because the place's banal cruelty is "off camera" to us, it's very naturally less real to us than the grief of the crying Eule. It's only natural, too, to forget how grim the Replikas' purposes are when you don't have to see anyone endure the brunt of it.

And isn't that the very same effect a state like the Nation is seeking in the first place, by disappearing people away to such dark little corners to have it done? In our world, no less than that one.

That works like a kind of propaganda too, not being able to see it - a propaganda of hidden things, as powerful as any poster. A space that's been intentionally left blank.

Kolibris are literal thought police; they intrude on people's very minds, interrogating them to death as a matter of course, with hardly a care either way. The various Protektor classes are functionally concentration camp guards and slave drivers. Falke and Adler are overseeing what amounts to a gulag, one so unimaginably awful Ariane preferred to spend years of her life alone in space to the prospect of being sent there, and inevitably worked to death, far underground.

I think there's a reason we never see one of those posters for LSTRs in game. How could we be asked to forgive our own if we ever did?

[vulgar-mary-p-ppins]

A glorious and stunning movie, well worth going to see. Miyazaki has not shied away from talking about the war before: The Wind Rises, albeit at it’s core a love story is still about the problem of creating the kamikaze planes and how life continues even in war time. As Miyazaki’s work has matured and his son has taken over more and more of the production, I find that his stories have become darker and his story-lines more complex. As such, I am delighted to see him make something so unsettling and mature as a (extremely loose) Dante’s Inferno. This is a far, far, FAR cry from something like Kiki and Totoro.

The details in which the shadow of the ongoing Pacific War color this film lend to Miyazaki’s style of talking about calamity in the softest way possible. Barring the opening sequence in which the main character witnesses the firebombing in Tokyo, there is no other “war violence”. However, at one point, his father stores something his factory is making in their house: the cockpits of the kamikaze planes. A character in the other world mentions off hand “soon, your world will be enveloped in fire”, which is clearly in reference to the bomb. Background details show wartime propaganda posters, nationalistic symbols, and children and adults performing the volunteer work usual for late stage war time. Much like Nausicaä, these are all details of the setting and are almost never overtly mentioned or pointed out.

This is a story about grief, just as Dante’s Inferno is, but also about the processing of war time trauma by a country besieged. Mihito, the main character, means “sincere one” and, when looking at this piece through the understanding that many Japanese perceive themselves as victims of World War II, he is a symbol of the victim mind-set of Japanese war time. He takes things as they come, never having a strong reaction either way. He isn’t bitter or angry, neither is he sad or grieving. He is numb. He goes through the motions of politeness, the motions of nationalistic fervor, the motions of life; but he is numb. It is only when the promise of retrieving his mother from death comes to him that he begins to break through his numbness, but it is the retrieval of his aunt that makes him a little boy again — a symbol of processing the loss of his old way of life, pre-war Japan, by embracing the new, post-war Japan.

I need to do more research into the symbolism of particular birds, because the usage feels too specific for me, but frankly, I haven’t yet. I loved the movie. I can’t wait to watch it again. Its a movie about sitting with your emotions, however, so, much like Miyazaki’s other more mature works, it is almost painfully slow. But that is what makes him a master storyteller; as an artist he reminds us to sit down and wait. The world is too fast now, and he has stated in interviews that his works is supposed to instill nostalgia for a time when we were younger and the world wasn’t so fast nor demanding. He wants us to sit: with the whimsical, with the painful, with the romantic, and in this case with the unsettling. And he does it again.

[gffa]

Do you have a favorite reference/visual guide in the Star Wars fandom? If so, why is it your favorite and are there any info bits you enjoy reading?

Far and away the best guide book that Star Wars put out was Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy.

Before I read this book, I don't know that I was that excited for it, but I found it thoroughly fascinating to read because it was such a great idea and it was pulled off beautifully--it's an in-world book of essays about the history of the galaxy and the use of art used to sway both sides of the various conflicts. So it tells the history of the galaxy, from the prequels to the sequels, through characters within the universe, while also being halfway a poster book of really fantastic political-style art pieces.

My favorite was the Republic vs Separatists sections (I am a prequels bitch after all) but the Empire vs Rebellion art pieces and the commentary and history that went with them were fantastic. This is one of the few books I recommend in physical form if you can afford it at all, because the pieces look nice in digital form (I have both), but a little photoshoppy to my eye. But holding this book in my hands I could see it was very much designed to be a print book, they look so much better there. You can see some more examples of the posters here or, if you want to know just how much I loved this book and some examples of why it hit me so hard, I have an essay here that explains more about what it's like. My other favorite guides are two other in-universe books: - Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious has great art, great in-world character notes, great tidbits about the worldbuilding, and even our only glimpse at a possible IN UNIVERSE CALENDAR SYSTEM - Star Wars Galactic Maps: An Illustrated Atlas of the Star Wars Universe has great art, fun in-world character notes, and is just really, really fun look at what a guidebook from inside the GFFA would look like.

[foxprints]

Commission for @rj-abacura of his CombatUnit OC! The propaganda style poster was fun. Thank you so much RJ for the opportunity to draw this!!

Commissions are currently open -- please DM if interested. Pricing is slightly different than what's on my currently pinned post, I just haven't had a chance to make another commission sheet 😅

[sawad-solo]

For the defense of the Empire, a redraw of a propaganda poster during WWII by Augustin Gabriel Maurice Toussaint in 1939 , in Countryballs style