Grapus
グラピュス / 1970–1991 / Style / Regional Graphics
The French collective born of May '68: hand-scrawled letters, splatters and graffiti over photographs brought festive roughness to posters for politics, theater and city halls — resistance to polish made into a style.
Rough hand-drawn lettering / Splatter and graffiti / Interventions on photographs / Anonymous collective authorship
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Pierre Bernard / lessons from the Polish poster school / the later Atelier de Création Graphique