Charities - NSPCC

The NSPCC are another Children Protection charity responsible for the sole purpose of prevention of child abuse, they don't focus too much on poverty abroad and such, but children in homes being abused are their top priority. The image above seems to send a message of safety, the colours represent that of a first aid box.

The poster campaigns they show are usually highly graphic and for some, upsetting. These images are graphic because the message they give must stick out, so it may be transferred to EVERYONE.

Charities - Save the Children

This children's charity is save the children, they are a charity dedicated to preventing child abuse and so take action against it by giving the accumulated money to organizations that prevent it.
Save the children currently work in 120 countries and counting, they have provided great aid to many countries but their most admirable work was the 2012 Child Poverty Act, where millions of children were saved from hunger and disease.

It's not only Practical work they do that inspires people, their Poster Campaigns are a major attraction to their cause and more and more donations come in as each day passes by.

Andy Warhol Mao Piece

My Andy Warhol piece -  Chinese Dictator Mao.

Andy Warhol Research

Andy Warhol remains as one of the most iconic artists to this day.
Even after his death, his art portrayed famous icons, as was his main focus. Andy Warhol was a leading inspiration in the pop art movement for everyday people to have their own pieces of art.
a foundation was made for him in 1987, in accordance with Andy Warhol's will, its mission was to help in the advancement of the visual arts.

Andy Warhol was, to say the least a bit of a snob, he used to spend a lot of time with famous people at parties and other social and celebratory events. During the 50s, they were just coming out of the war. Everything was dull, uniforms and wreckage was plain black and white, but Andy Warhol saw past that and produced vibrant colours to portray the famous icons of the past and present. His popularity continued onwards past the 60s and revolutionised pop art today.

The term Pop Art, derived from the words popular art is exactly what it was and what it became.
In my opinion, this was a turning point in history for art, resembling and capturing the image of many a famous person, this did indeed push art not just to the rich but to everyday people and spreading its popularity and freedom to right to art.

Hannah Hoch - Propaganda Art

Hannah Höch was born Anna Therese Johanne Höch in Gotha, Germany. 

In 1912 she began classes at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin under the guidance of glass designer Harold Bergen. She chose the curriculum glass design and graphic arts, rather than fine arts, to please her father.

In 1914, at the start of World War I, she left the school and returned home to Gotha to work with the Red Cross. In 1915 she returned to school, entering the graphics class of Emil Orlik at the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts.

Also in 1915, Höch began an influential friendship with Raoul Hausman, a member of the Berlin Dada movement. Höch's involvement with the Berlin Dadaists began in earnest in 1919. After her schooling, she worked in the handicrafts department for Ullstein Verlag (The Ullstein Press), designing dress and embroidery patterns for Die Dame (The Lady) and Die Praktische Berlinerin (The Practical Berlin Woman).

Hannah Hoch was an artist who made exceptional collages, her history as shown above is an extensive one, which led her to the collage artist she was known for.

Cause for Concern - Stencil Art

For my first Stencil, I used it on newspaper as my first background, I used grey as the background colour as it suited the dark, rebellious aura it gave off.

Black was used for the rebel, again reflecting the dark atmosphere, the molotov was yellow, red and orange which helped show off its destructive power.

A simple green for the tank attacking the rebel, showing its contrast to the rebel and molotov being thrown.

I used tracing paper as a background material this time, as shown above the background was not grey for this as I found it more relevant to focus on the stencil, rather than go through the process of covering the figures exact shapes.

For my last stencil, I used paper to make the figures of the stencils stand out more, as seen in the last two stencils,  have changed the bottle colour to black and left the flame at the top, so it is seemingly flowing out of the bottle as it is being thrown.

The background on the first seemed to interfere with much of the work, especially the fire from the tank barrel, which is why its missing from the last two.

This cause of concern stencil was for the Russia - Ukraine takeover concern, clearly showing the might of the forces by the tank, the oppression shown by the rebel, and the destruction both sides have caused by the thrown molotov incendiary.

Cause for Concern- Russia invading Ukraine

Cause for concern - Russia and Crimea takeover.

Russia Crimea takeover is my cause for concern because this is not the first time Russia has attempted this and conflict between two countries are usually very heated topics of discussion.


The image above shows some makeshift fortifications/barricades, outside the international administration office which was seized by Pro-russian militants in Ukraine.





Image on the left shows tight security as the simple victims try to get around under normal circumstances with soldiers watching their every move, freedom isn't present in Crimea as it was before.













Image on the right portrays the destruction caused in protests and military acts in Crimea, as that is almost frequent in Russia and Ukraine, it is very likely to be just as relentless.








Image below displays Pro-Russian activists holding the Russian flags during a rally in the city centre of Donetsk on March 1st 2014. Just one of many protests to come in the future of Russia and Crimea.