People receive messages from the world from every glance. Everything that we see effect our idea of the world and the way we behave. The dominant images then have a dominant effect that gradually change peoples’ mind to identify with the main idea of them, which is exactly what happened in the 1950s to 1960s in China. This was the period when People’s Republic of China started the economic construction of and the whole nation was immersed in the red sea of propaganda posters. These posters, in Donald’s words, constitutes “an immersive aesthetic field through which the Party disseminated extraordinarily powerful visual metaphors for the revolution-in-progress” (658). When art serves as a media for politic purposes, the artistic appeal of it transform the political discourses to be less serious and then communicates with the audiences in a more relaxing and gradual way. ¬In the economic construction propaganda posters of 1950s to 1960s in China, the methods used in it to motivate watcher's enthusiasm is to define the ideal …show more content…
When people urged for a prosperous society and the authority needed to motivate people to devote into construction, propaganda became an artistic medium between them. When the masses first saw the posters, they had already expect to see a great blueprint for the future and even if the connotation of propaganda means a little manipulation, the authority could still emphasize the ideality as long as it satisfies people. Hence when artistic methods was used in the posters, people took what they need and gradually began to receive and eventually accept the ideology notion in it. This is how the “psychological collusion of opinion” is reached and propaganda then have a profound effect on the whole attitude and behavior of the whole nation (Donald