Image found at: http://www.illustrationweb.com/artists/MartinHargreaves/view
(Accessed: 27 April 2012)
I ran into Martin’s work while researching for a project,
and I was very surprised of his works, he is very complex and uses images in a
very clever way of showing today’s problems and challenged ‘the way we look at
3rd world poverty and question our pre-conceptions’ (Illustration
LTD., 2010). He made an entire series of this type of posters, and I am pretty
sure that he made a bid impression and did changed a lot of people’s minds, and
the way they look at the world. It is a harsh truth about the series he created
and exhibited in Paris. I would have loved to get the chance to see it, he
makes quite a big statement and I appreciate that he is not afraid of putting
his work out, even though some people might take as an offense , but I
personally think there is nothing wrong with expressing your ideas, I think it
comes back to pre-conceptions, and they we want or not to read and accept what
the artist wanted for us to see, it can either be liked or not, it depends on
each person’s likes.
Image found at: http://www.illustrationweb.com/artists/MartinHargreaves/view
(Accessed: 27 April 2012)
Reference list: Illustration LTD. (2010) ‘Tackling
Preconceptions’ Illustration, 7 May.
Available at: http://illustrationweb.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Martin%20Hargreaves
(Accessed: 27 April 2012)
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