Communication and Mass Media

This lecture was about how a means of public communication can reach a large audience. And communication can cover any form of art from graphic design, to illustration to fine art. The lecture talked about how one use of visual communication can be communicated in one way at one point in time, then later communicated in another.



For example the above painting Bubbles 1886 has been communicated to the public in one way and then (below) it has been communicated in a different way, in this case an advertisement for Pears Soap.



Throughout history, communication and mass media has been used for propaganda purposes, for example posters that get people to sign up for the army. The power of mass media is incredibly powerful and the point I took away from the lecture was that how we perceive media is very deliberate and the power of the people who create this mass media should not be underestimated because it can make us do anything.