My Finished Poster

I based my poster off of the film What Dreams May Come, in which Robin Williams character loses both his children in a car accident, then his own life near the beginning of the film. He goes to heaven, and soon finds out that his wife committed suicide and went to hell, so he decides to get her back.

The 10 components from the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts Periods found in my poster are as follows:
1. I have a very bright color palette, at least on the top half, the bottom is supposed to represent hell, and so it looks dead and dark. The bright color palette is very common in Art Nouveau stylings.
2. Symbolism is a major part of my work, The tree is a representation of a tree that Robin Williams sees in the movie, when he first finds out he and his wife were soulmates, and that he has a chance to save her. The bright and dark on the top and bottom respectively represent heaven and hell. Symbolism was generally used in the Art Nouveau period.
3. I have floral emphasis in the border at the top and the bottom, and I suppose the tree can count as a floral object as well, something used often in the Arts and Crafts as well as the Art Nouveau period.
4. The Ando Hiroshige print is obviously a reference to the influence of Japanese art on people during the Art Nouveau period.
5. The woman is a Beardsley work, and shows the use of simplified shapes to indicate figures and clothing with minimal lines and flat shapes. This is becomes popularized during the Art Nouveau period as well.
6. The use of the female figure is another obvious throwback to Art Nouveau.
7. The use of medieval book styling and ornamentation of large capital letters by William Morris is from the Art Nouveau period.
8. The border around the top and bottom are pattern-like, although only the top border is technically a pattern, which was very popular during the Arts and Crafts period.
9. The use of typographic form is relatively self-explanatory. Exploration of type was very popular during the Arts and Crafts period.
10. Ornamentation was a major part of the Arts and Crafts period. There are many examples of ornamentation in the book on pg. 174+175, and my William Morris pages in the poster are no exception. There is major ornamentation around the borders of the pages, and there is ornamentation of the capital letter in the text.

Here are the images I used in the final poster:

Ex Libris Aubrey Beardsley

Jasmine Wallpaper William Morris

Kelmscott Chaucer Edward Burne

May Tree Frieze Walter Crane

Shiojiri Pass in Shinano Ando Hiroshige

What Dreams May Come Movie Poster

The Story of the Glittering Plain  William Morris

Chapter 9 Thoughts

One of the most interesting things I learned was that photography was not really its own medium initially. People basically used it to copy traditional portrait and classical painting styles, and although it was an interesting use of the camera and lighting, it was not used to its fullest potential. The extensive usage of lighting, cropping, burning and dodging, and the idea of capturing a specific feeling as well as a moment in time, did not come about until later on. I also thought it was interesting that Matthew Brady pioneered the idea of using photography as a reporting/documentary tool, and that this was the first step into photography as we know it today.