Poster as a means of teaching art variables

Posters are part of graphic design just like paintings are part of painting. The term poster is not included in the curriculum for the subject of Art, but it is included in the curriculum for the subject Art Design 2. In this master thesis we explored how much content from the field of graphic design can be found in the curriculum for Art and Art Design. Our point of interest was how to incorporate more content from the field of graphic design in the teaching of Art. By doing that we would familiarize the students with the understanding of visual messages, which are present everywhere around us and modernize the importance of fine art. We defined the main characteristics of a poster, as well as in which group we categorize posters according to the content and we included a short historical overview of posters in Slovenia and Poland, adding also the presentation of main poster designers from both countries. In the empirical part we researched how the understanding of art variables among students is influenced by a presentation with the help of a graphic design (poster) and with the help of paintings. The quantitative research aimed at discovering whether there is a difference in the understanding of art variables among students if they have been presented with the help of paintings or they have been presented with the help of graphic design. The qualitative research, on the other hand, evaluated the artistic creations from the students