I came across both of these images recently - a film poster for The Interview (2014) starring Seth Rogen and James Franco and questioned myself, "How can I instil irony and parody into propaganda posters like David Shrigley in his 'Fight the Nothingness' painting? I wanted to synthesise both of these together to show I have an understanding of the Postmodern elements underpinning the above work and David Shrigley's and incorporate that into my own visual research ,marrying with the Propaganda work I was reading by Bernays. Here are the results:
I made slight alterations to these North Korean propaganda pieces to add humour and create a parody; an imitation with added exaggeration for comic effect. I used symbols of today's modern age to juxtapose the vintage aesthetic of the illustrations with emoji, a meme and iPhones. As a digital generation we are obsessed with documenting everything through selfies, using emojis to quickly communicate with a universal language that can be understood by anyone and the DIY / art for the everyman of memes. I'm quite pleased with how these turned out!
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