Stylogeny combining South African Resistance Poster × Minjung Woodcut Graphics

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South African Resistance Poster × Minjung Woodcut Graphics

Exact contemporaries in another democracy struggle; set a carved figure beside community screenprint colour for solidarity graphics.

From the research on Minjung Woodcut Graphics (Korean People's Art)

Mix them and make something South African Resistance Poster Minjung Woodcut Graphics

RISESouth African × Minjung Woodcut1978 · 1979
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Minjung Woodcut Graphics, their arrangement from South African Resistance Poster, the finish from Minjung Woodcut Graphics. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

South African Resistance Poster Minjung Woodcut Graphics (Korean People's Art)

Type from South African Resistance Poster
Colour from South African Resistance Poster
Form from Minjung Woodcut Graphics
Composition from South African Resistance Poster
Surface from Minjung Woodcut Graphics

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The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · South African Resistance Poster

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Allerta Stencil, standing in for Hand-cut stencil capitals

Text · Minjung Woodcut Graphics

The reproducible graphic branch of Minjung misul (people's art), South Korea's art of the 1980s democracy and labour movements. After the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980, artists such as Oh Yoon and Hong Sung-dam took up the woodcut for the movement: bold, succinct black-line figures of workers, farmers, miners and dancers, cut in wood and reused on poetry-book covers, pamphlets, posters, chest badges and enlarged painted geolgae banners for rallies.

Archivo; Minjung Woodcut Graphics used Hangul titles and slogans carved into the woodblock and Brush-written Hangul slogans on painted geolgae banners and posters

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from South African Resistance Poster, with a counter-accent from Minjung Woodcut Graphics. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

South African Resistance Poster Minjung Woodcut Graphics (Korean People's Art)

  • #f4f1e8 ground · 36%
  • #141414 ink · 14%
  • #f2b51d accent · 18%
  • #c89a3c accent · 14%
  • #d7261e accent · 10%
  • #007a4d accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f4f1e8;
  --ink: #141414;
  --accent-1: #f2b51d;
  --accent-2: #c89a3c;
  --accent-3: #d7261e;
  --accent-4: #007a4d;
  --font-display: "Allerta Stencil", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Archivo", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

South African Resistance Poster: The photograph of the dying Hector Pieterson (Sam Nzima, 16 June 1976) and the portraits of detainees and the dead show real people whose families and communities still remember them, and ANC, UDF and COSATU colours and the spear and shield are the marks of living organisations. Use them with context and permission rather than as generic protest styling.

Minjung Woodcut Graphics (Korean People's Art): Minjung prints were made for a living movement and many record the dead of the Gwangju Uprising; their makers or estates hold the rights, and the movement's exhibitions met police suppression (The Power of People in Their 20s, 1985). Their borrowings from shamanic gut, mask dance and Buddhist painting carry ritual meaning in Korea: do not lift those motifs as decorative 'Korean folk' texture, do not turn Gwangju imagery into generic protest branding, and credit the artists by name. The genome describes the reproducible woodcut branch of a wider movement that also painted, made banners, comics and photomontage.

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The two styles

Large black, yellow and red lettering reads “LAND FOR PEOPLE” above a stylised agricultural worker wearing a red headscarf and holding a hoe. Green crop rows, hills, small houses and a tree extend behind the figure beneath a large yellow sun. 1978–1994 · Sub-Saharan Africa South African Resistance Poster The posters of the struggle against apartheid, from the exiled Medu Art Ensemble in Gaborone to the community workshops that served the United Democratic Front and the unions in the 1980s. Low-tech silkscreen from hand-cut stencils was chosen on purpose: cheap, quick to teach, workable without electricity and often illegal. One to three flat inks carry heavy hand-lettered slogans, organisation logos, fists, crowds and photographs converted to line. A woodcut-style poster shows a group of workers beneath a large raised fist, with red flags, an industrial skyline and an ochre sun behind them. Grain stalks and small white flowers fill the foreground, and large red lettering reads “TOGETHER FURTHER.” 1979–1994 · East Asia Minjung Woodcut Graphics (Korean People's Art) The reproducible graphic branch of Minjung misul (people's art), South Korea's art of the 1980s democracy and labour movements. After the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980, artists such as Oh Yoon and Hong Sung-dam took up the woodcut for the movement: bold, succinct black-line figures of workers, farmers, miners and dancers, cut in wood and reused on poetry-book covers, pamphlets, posters, chest badges and enlarged painted geolgae banners for rallies.

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