Nine Pop-Fine Art Inspired Posters For The Oscars 2017 Best Moving Picture Nominees

I’one thousand non sure most you, only I intend the Oscars 2017 Best Picture announcers merely acquired the Steve Harvey fever for misannouncing winners. But it did become the buzz, am I right?

And patch I intend La La Land should have won, I got to hand it to Moonlight together with the balance of the Best Picture nominees. The Academy Awards are a cracking mixture of new in addition to former, of nostalgia in addition to excogitation.

To celebrate this filmmaking feat, our friends at Shutterstock used the Oscars equally the topic for their Pop Art Challenge.

According to the Shutterstock Blog, “The challenge is simple. Each of our designers chooses one of the 9 nominated films as well as reinterprets it as a go of Pop Art, based on the mode of an artist who inspires them, using images from Shutterstock’second collection. ”

Check out the finished poster designs along alongside notes from their designers below.

Arrival

“I dearest Lichtenstein’second comic mode together with bold colors, together with I used it to take a totally dissimilar perspective to Arrival past adding a feel of fun. I made Amy Adams’ graphic symbol into 1 of Lichtenstein’s heroines, trying to brand feel of her extraordinary state of affairs.” — Alice Lee

Fences

“Watching Fences, I was struck by the frequent presence of a tethered baseball; it seemed to human activity equally a symbol for unfulfilled dreams in addition to stunted potential. I recreated it inward the way of Andy Warhol’s gun serial. That series was a commentary on culture and mortality, which seemed like a skillful check for this poignant cinema.” — Terrence Morash

Hacksaw Ridge

“Hacksaw Ridge tells the true storey of Desmond Doss, a scrap medic who saved the lives of 75 wounded soldiers during the Battle of Okinawa without firing a single bullet. Inspired by Richard Hamilton’s style, I gave each slice a cutout aesthetic too substituted the existent soldiers for toys. The cherry cross is a nod to both Doss’sec office and his stiff organized religion.” — Brandon Lee

Hell or High Water

“Hell or High Water follows 2 bank-robbing brothers and the 2 detectives that are trying to catch them. Like Robert Rauschenberg’s “combines,” the celluloid has a strong undercurrent of political references together with often makes unexpected comparisons betwixt the socio-political climate of the past in addition to acquaint.” — Michael Wong

Hidden Figures

“Hidden Figures shines a lite on the untold stories of three dark women who were integral to the United States of America’ space programme. It made me intend of another woman inwards the 1960s whose go went unrecognized because of discrimination – the creative person Idelle Weber. I used her signature silhouette mode to frame the characters inwards the film.” — Alice Li

La La Land

“La La Land is a tribute to old Hollywood musicals in addition to classic jazz simply alongside a mod twist. I felt the colorful collage operate of Eduardo Paolozzi matched this feeling of one-time together with new. Just like the celluloid, his run has a feeling of free energy and fantasy alongside serious undertones.” — Abbey Katz

Lion

“Lion is about Saroo, a v-yr-erstwhile boy who got lost in addition to grew upwardly in a strange land, eventually finding his way home years subsequently using Google world together with his scattered memories. That sense of chaos in addition to fragmentation reminded me of Bruce Gray’second work. I matched the segmented circles from Gray’sec paintings with a key element from Lion, the Jalebi, an Indian dessert that triggered memories of home for Saroo.” — Flo Lau

Manchester by the Sea

“The ii Ruscha-like drawings stand for Manchester past the Sea’sec multiple timelines — the acme illustrates the foreshadowing of the celluloid’second climax as well as the lower component part reflects the tranquility heartbreak of its aftermath. I separate the championship in 2 to symbolize the fractured relationships of the people inwards the town as well as used a muted tonal palette to reverberate the heavy subject affair.” — Eric Sams

Moonlight

“Moonlight focuses on the personal journey of Chiron, a beau trying to detect himself in addition to his home inwards the world. It’second a commentary on social ills similar poverty, drug abuse, and homophobia. The film is carve up into 3 chapters inward Chiron’s life, then I incorporated Peter Blake’sec function of grids, besides every bit simplified imagery, to correspond the forces that shaped his life.” — Kate Crotty

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