Abram Games

        I found a lot of the work in the Restless times Exhibition gallery quite dull and depressing in comparison to some of Abram Games' artwork however some of Games' work was based on war so there was similarities in the way that some of the work was dark and quite saddening. The restless times exhibition was interesting, it showed art from times where this country was facing war and a time when displaced people from all over Europe settled here bringing new artists and ideas to Britain, allot of the paintings and sculptures seemed to reflect the gloominess that the war brought. The Abram games exhibition had its own fair share of gloomy artwork but at the same time there was allot of vibrant images which made the exhibition not as depressing as the Festival of Britain exhibition. The massive range of typography interested me in Games' work and how he had used it to create a huge variety of images.

I liked how he used the typography to add different effects to the final image and also seeing his plan sheets and the work he did previous to the final piece was interesting. Some of his images were not clear what the text said and i found myself tilting my head and sort of solving the puzzle in the image as his work is not always straight forward fonts and colours but this is what i enjoyed about it.

The way he has thought to use different images and objects to represent a letter or number or the way he creates great visual pieces of work from just text and block colours is what made me enjoy his work the most, however not all of Abram Games' work is bright colours and texts as some have quite a dark depressing feel to them such as the war posters like 'Give Clothing for liberated Europe' Piece.

Throughout the day i did sketches of my favourite pieces in the galleries, these where 'Give clothing' and '1981 Gestetner' by Abram Games, The 'Teatopia' exhibition in the Millennium galleries ( My favourite image out of this exhibition was the 'tea bath' tea towel design by Geo law ) and a simplistic black and white design of different cups by Megan Price.