The Great Seed

New Scientist - The Great Seed Blitzrieg.

The above image was created by Michelle Thompson. Michelle Thompson is an illustrator that graduated from Royal College of Art back in 1996. From then, she has worked in publishing, editorial and design successfully.  Her work has reach many people, her work with British designer Vaughan Oliver has been outstanding internationally. She has also done illustrations for books, for example Cherie Blair's 'The Goldfish Bowl'. Her clients are all through out the world for example BBC, Reebok even famous book companies like Penguin Books. Her works have been featured in all kinds of press. He technique consists of photographs, collage, mark making hand making, digital processes and many more. In most of her work, these elements are used to portray her outcome which leads to astonishing works. Well, this work is called The Great Seed Blitzrieg. It is a collage consisting of different elements. This work was created for "New  Scientist", a magazine. I assume it is for an article that they wrote back in 2008. I can also assume that this work was also created in 2008 from this fact. http://www.uni-jena.de/unijenamedia/Downloads/faculties/bio_pharm/ag_didaktik/Nazi_biopirates-p-24754.pdf  I have chosen to analyse this work because of the different techniques used in the work, also the other colours used.

As  I have said, the main purpose for this image was for a magazine under the title "The Great Seed Blitzkrieg"  It is strange that the word "Blitzkrieg" is missing the "K" in the work title. I haven't found a reason why this is like this but I found it very strange. This is suppose to represent the Blitz, hence the man standing with I assume a Nazi uniform.  I was unable to find any of what the artist had to say about this image. This image is a college which is also an illustration. It is telling us the chaos that occurred during the world war.
For example the red symbolizes blood, lots of lives were lost in the world war, the red shows all the people that died . Also the children are the key images I think as they were the ones that had to leave their parents behind into World War 2 but also they died in this tragic  battle between countries. The theme in this piece is war, the entire piece is dedicated to war. From the image alone, it is very descriptive.

There are many materials used within this work, same goes to techniques. Michelle Thompson used many different techniques to bring this work to life. For example, using old photographs like the man and the two children. Although, the main technique used for this image is collage, the artist has brought together different images into one. Moreover, the colours used  contrasts well for example the black and red brings out the work, making look attractive but also the old beige style background makes it look like it was the world war from the post cards and letters. She also overlays drip like texture makes it look authentic, more realistic.  It relates well to the image.
This work seems unique in my eyes, I haven't seen such work before, it is something completely different, hence it caught my eye. This work has inspired me to think of my own way to use her technique and adapt it to my task.