Regina Spektor Tour Poster

This artistic and charismatic tour poster can be interpreted in many different ways, Its individuality reflects Regina's style of music and lyrics. The striking image of the cartoon dove usually connotes peace, purity, love and beauty. This could suggest that her tracks include all of these themes to provide for a variety of listeners. It is also a very natural and idyllic image, which could heighten her acoustic and alternative artist title.  The use of the colour green has a calming and serenading effect, it is a colour usually associated with the landscape which helps to portray to new listeners that she is of the acoustic genre. The colour red is the most predominant colour used on this poster, red is a very sensual colour that is used to express femininity. This could have been used to show that Regina is a very strong and emotive artist, who is considered as being very dominant and powerful. I found it very unusual that the colour orange was used on this poster, however when asking my peers they suggested that it is a warming colour and is used to represent the changing of seasons. This could suggest that her tour is unlike any that she has done before, and could reflect a change in the style of her music. Due to others opinions on this colour, it has also changed my own and i now feel that it was used as a symbol of her growing as an artist. By using this colour as the font for the tour dates, it could suggest that anyone is welcome.
The central and main image is of  a giant babushka doll, all the other images on this poster are contained within the doll. This could suggest that Regina feels she is trapped within a painted identity with all these ideas inside of her. We can see that there is a cartoon hand breaking out of the doll in order to play a keyboard. This could be a metaphor to show that music is her only way of escaping the restrictions of her everyday life and could maybe show the importance that the keyboard has in her music. Big hippy flowers surround the tour poster, this is a very common theme on acoustic tour posters and videos as usually it represents the natural worlds effect on the music.
The painted face on the babushka doll could symbolize that Regina could be trying to hide her identity, feels insecure or could feels that she needs to be different to stand up against new artists.