Mai '68: Atelier Populaire.
Gallery 1.
Gallery 2.
Link 1.
Link 2 (en français).
On May 16th protesting students occupied Paris' most distinguished and conservative art school, L'École des Beaux-Arts.
Under the group name 'Atelier Populaire' (Popular Workshop) they created the posters that came to symbolise the events of May 1968.
Each day suggested graphics and slogans were discussed and voted on, new posters were produced every day for almost a month and a half.
Printed throughout the day, each evening the Left Bank would be covered in these new sets of designs.
In order for the posters to be produced in the required volume and quickly enough to be dry for that evening, the students used many different techniques of manufacture; Linoleum, primitive Lithograph and Silkscreen prints were all employed.
The Beaux Arts students were heavily influenced by the Situationists, a group of philosophers who believed art and culture were central to any radical societal change and that all art should be produced anonymously and never collected.
An exhibition of Atelier Populaire will run at London's Hayward Gallery from Thursday 1 May 2008 until Sunday 1 June 2008.
Gallery 1.
Gallery 2.
Link 1.
Link 2 (en français).
On May 16th protesting students occupied Paris' most distinguished and conservative art school, L'École des Beaux-Arts.
Under the group name 'Atelier Populaire' (Popular Workshop) they created the posters that came to symbolise the events of May 1968.
Each day suggested graphics and slogans were discussed and voted on, new posters were produced every day for almost a month and a half.
Printed throughout the day, each evening the Left Bank would be covered in these new sets of designs.
In order for the posters to be produced in the required volume and quickly enough to be dry for that evening, the students used many different techniques of manufacture; Linoleum, primitive Lithograph and Silkscreen prints were all employed.
The Beaux Arts students were heavily influenced by the Situationists, a group of philosophers who believed art and culture were central to any radical societal change and that all art should be produced anonymously and never collected.
An exhibition of Atelier Populaire will run at London's Hayward Gallery from Thursday 1 May 2008 until Sunday 1 June 2008.
Labels: Atelier Populaire, Mai '68
posted by Will Kane at
4:17 AM
4 Comments:
i did some t shirts of this stuff a few years ago but they crawled off the shelves. i liked them though.
Hi Ally when you printed these t-shirts did you obtain a copyright or are they exempt as part of the free press syndicate? I am also interested in printing some but dont understand copyright. Please email me at www.oap.23@virgin.net Many Thanks Graham
I doubt anyone owns the copyright on these images as they were produced anonymously by anarchists.
You may find it easier to contact Ally through her splendid blog; dusty7s.blogspot.com
Reproducing t-shirts of these works is almost disrespectful in my opinion and goes against every view of art ATELIER POPULAIRE believed in. Not to mention the fact that they did not sell their images because they were for the sole purpose of protest and to bring about social change in France at the time.
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