Minimalist Poster - February 2015

[Rik]

This month's Minimalist Poster challenge is the film Home Alone.

So, the idea is to come up with a drawing, that gives an idea as to what the film is, without using the name of the film.

The drawing should be in a film poster style and size
However, all drawings are welcome.

Let's see your ideas!

[mikeymopar]

This month's Minimalist Poster challenge is the film Home Alone....

heh...minimalist elements or minimalist talent or minimalist effort. i think i got all 3 covered either way (especially the second and third ones)
if you guys are too shy to try this month's challenge, i've set the bar pretty low and hopefully y'all are screaming "I can do better than THAT!" So bring it

[Rik]

Well said, Mike.
I take my hat off to you.

As for your poster, it's excellent.

[Gare]

Rik—

Apologies in advance for not creating a Minimalist poster of a film. Professionally, there are a few styles I'm proficient in, and dabble in, but Minimalism isn't one of them, so my personal challenge was to see if I could communicate an idea using as little detail as possible. I'm just getting familiar with the style enough to do something in it, no less be restricted by a theme, okay?

So I throw down my sword this month, yield on a challenge, but wanted to post a couple of ?Minimalist tgings I did recently, based on the current crop of Minimalistic art that is going around art and web circles today. Minimalism started in the 1960s, but all you need to do is a web search on minimalism to see how it's doing 50 years later. Incredible stuff and an awful lot of it digital.

That said:



I'd love to have been a little more precise manipulating the gradated lines, but as you can see, that aside from subtle blurred shading, the whole composition is just lines, a circle, and two colors. Actually, if this hung around a little bit in the 1960s, it would have graduated to Pop Art.



This one above I'm quite proud of. I think it's almost a Charades-type illustration. And guess what? If you say, "Okay, fine, it's just a watch, then consider that Movado came out with one of the first watches done in an artistic Minimalist style that ran $2,500 and was one of the most forged watches that hit the US shores for a while. So art can direct other art, right?

It's all one big convergence. Where you wind up depends on where you start, and what your internal road directions are.

My Best,

Gary

[Rik]

Welcome to the fold, Gary.
And prepare to be challenged?!

And, also, the whole idea is that anyone can take part, as photorealism is not required.
You can if you want to!

The film topic for February was Home Alone
And the art/poster needs to be something that advertises that film.