any one know who the artist was who made this? Ive been searching for more images from him/her. I assume early 20th centuray expressionist????
heres the link:
http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/T-Shirts/dtorres/action.JPG
cheers
Mar 24 2010 20:33
Mar 25 2010 00:40
The only place I've seen them is in the various publications of the GCI. Particularly effective, I thought, was the one showing a column of soldiers in gas masks being waved off by a bloated capitalist and a crying girl. As they advance through a plume of smoke they assume the form of skeletons, becoming rows and rows of crosses.
I thought the style had a touch of Masereel, but more angular. I like them.
Mar 25 2010 02:57
Arntz is pretty cool; not too streotypical and clichee (compare with the images of fat capitalists with pencil mustaches also featured on the IISH webpage), but definitely political.
Mar 25 2010 06:59
the interesting background info on arntz and hans schmitz, frantz seiwert and other progressives can be found in kurasje archive.
including this arntz´s quotation:
Quote:
"Grosz . . . draws the capitalist as an ugly and fat criminal. I did things differently. He can be good-looking, a decent family man with beautiful daughters ... I sought to show the position of the capitalist in the system of production - for that they need not be as ugly as Grosz made them."and while Grosz showed the worker as a creature of misery, Arntz rejects this view:
"We too show hits as miserable because he was a product of miserable circumstances. But with us he was also a revolutionary who tackled things. Our art was to make a contribution to tearing the old society apart. It was propaganda, it attempted to reveal social contrasts and show social opportunities, not just moralising criticism."
btw, what seiwert said on technology and machinery (as quoted in the article) is also very "mature" criticism, surprisingly radical given his time (and simmilar to operaist critique for instance).
Mar 25 2010 13:58
An interesting site about Gerd Arntz is http://www.gerdarntz.org/home. He cooperated with Otto Neurath, the famous logical positivist philosopher, in creating a general system o pictograms, symbols etc. for visual communication of scientific information called Isotype.
Mar 26 2010 10:12
guadia wrote:
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btw, what seiwert said on technology and machinery (as quoted in the article) is also very "mature" criticism, surprisingly radical given his time (and simmilar to operaist critique for instance).
Hi guadia. Which article are you referring to? Your link goes only to the Kurasje home page. I do want to read what Seiwert wrote on technology and machinery. Can you please link to the specific article in question?
Mar 26 2010 14:43
hi, waslax,
sorry. it is here: http://kurasje.org/arkiv/5600f.htm
it is only short quotation and unfortunatelly with no refference to its source though.
Mar 30 2010 12:54
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Particularly effective, I thought, was the one showing a column of soldiers in gas masks being waved off by a bloated capitalist and a crying girl. As they advance through a plume of smoke they assume the form of skeletons, becoming rows and rows of crosses.
Found it here
As an image I think it's still pretty useable today (perhaps someone could improve on my useless link and actually upload the picture?).
admin: done!
Mar 30 2010 13:56
actually we would quite like an image gallery here of his artwork. If one of our users would upload one it would be much appreciated! just clic submit content - images then add one at a time
Mar 30 2010 15:20
Cheers, Steven, that looks much better.
Mar 30 2010 16:12
Wellclose Square wrote:
Quote:
Particularly effective, I thought, was the one showing a column of soldiers in gas masks being waved off by a bloated capitalist and a crying girl. As they advance through a plume of smoke they assume the form of skeletons, becoming rows and rows of crosses.Found it here
As an image I think it's still pretty useable today (perhaps someone could improve on my useless link and actually upload the picture?).
admin: done!
That is pretty poignant, despite the caricatural depiction of capitalists as pot bellied cigar smoking old men and of workers as flat cap aficionados.
Mar 30 2010 16:38
Agree, it's caricatural and slightly anachronous in its portrayal, but there's nothing much that can be done to improve on its essential message, which is still pretty clear... and poignant.
Mar 30 2010 22:16
This is frankly amazing in its depiction of elections.
Mar 31 2010 08:19
october_lost wrote:
This is frankly amazing in its depiction of elections.
Note the worker councils down there 
(Räte)
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http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/art/indexarntz.html
it seems he was a councilist. It would be interesting to know about his politics and other works...