Its main purpose is to persuade and manipulate the public opinion.
Surrealism is an irrational art form that takes inspiration from the art form Dadaism. surrealism is very similar to dadaism but it has it's own unique style that differentiates it from dadaism. They both may form around the idea of absurdity, abstractness, sometimes meaningless. What makes surrealism different from dadaism was the fact that surrealism took their art work seriously and not anti art. Also, surrealism revolved around the idea of the unconsciousness mind and trying to bring out visually their unconsciousness such as dreams.
The differences between Propaganda and Surrealism is that Propaganda focuses more on the real world and tries to make it's messages specific and clear as possible, visually and verbally to it's audience. While Surrealism has no boundaries, with the only real exception is that it mustn't be too actual, too specific and too …show more content…
As effective as it is it was also the powerhouse to giving hope and planting beliefs inside peoples head.
propaganda war poster were part of the reason that encouraged people in the military forces to keep on fighting and others who were not in the military to join the military, even after seeing many besides them fall. a good example of propaganda is this poster. When Britain seemed to stand alone this poster was sent out to reassure people that britons did have allies. As a result it helped people feel as though they have a better chance at winning the war.
"Together" by William Little, August 1941, Gouache on paper.
Yet propaganda war posters were also the reasons of where false stereotypical beliefs were created. Such as this war poster created:
"British and Australian soldiers" by Giles, Post-1944
The person in the middle is a japanese. Yet do all japanese look like this? No. japanese are regular people who look civilized and normal like every human being, just a bit different from europeans. They certainly do not have unsightly teeth or green skin. But because this is a propaganda poster they plant fake beliefs that japanese are ugly mean beast that should be killed. This poster also gives hope to people to fight the war because they will have allies and have a better chance for