Communist Posters

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We chatted to Harriet about just what's so special about their vintage Polish posters and how she and Sylwia began this unique project. Films like I Married a Communist (below) and The Red Menace (top), both from 1949, offered sensationalized pulpy takes on the red scare. In the poster Help (1921), the one-word text provides the cry for help to this silent figure, a figure worthy of the work of the great German artist Kathe Köllwitz who may have influenced Moor. In 1966 Mao Zedong, the Communist leader of China, started a political campaign that became known as the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

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Then, about six years ago, I suffered a really serious illness, after which I decided to retrain as a graphic designer, something I'd always wanted to do. In 1920, Brodski attended a congress in Petrograd, where he made sketches of Lenin and then showed him a sketch and asked him to sign it. The Nazis deemed swing and jazz "degenerate music" and tried to suppress them — although Germany did have one Nazi-approved, state-sponsored jazz band known as Charlie and His Orchestra.During the Civil War, a period of economic devastation and destruction, somehow paper could be found for newspapers and for the lithographic production of posters. Despite the recent setbacks the workers’ movement will be once again be reignited as it’s fires are born out of the very contradictions of capitalism. As they conducted evil science experiments, the Nazi Party utilized highly artistic — sometimes even beautiful — posters to promote ideas of hatred and fear of the Other, and allow them to “ripen” in the minds of young army recruits and civilians. Some of them are so outside the bounds of what we'd expect a movie poster to be that they have to be seen to be believed.

posters from the Soviet era are utterly unique These Polish posters from the Soviet era are utterly unique

If using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full, always provide an active hyperlink to the original material. By honouring history and celebrating the value of art, we are, in our own small way, able to stand up for the freedoms and positive values we believe in. True, the Red Scare stuff was heavy-handed, but the American Legion and Canadair pieces on “educators” has a certain contemporary ring to it in view of the “Woke” social justice profs currently re-writing history to protect their snowflake students from “micro-aggressions”.

By the next day, we'd probably exchanged about 100 WhatsApp messages, as we got more and more excited and couldn't stop! The result was a vibrant, eclectic collection of colorful posters that ended up looking more like pieces of art than advertisements stuck to the front of a movie theater. The anti-fascist theme was an important part of their oeuvre – the poster ‘We will mercilessly defeat and destroy the enemy! In their place the government attempted to create a new visual culture: one that celebrated workers, soldiers, industrial progress and Chairman Mao. Grigorian often picks up rare examples outside Russia, because western tourists bought and preserved them.

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Originally from Oklahoma, she has been covering visual culture and overlooked history for print and online media since 2006. Collectors should never display valuable posters without a frame with a UV filter, or they can quickly fade in the sun.Though most Soviet posters were produced in print runs of 30,000 to 60,000, they were meant to be posted on walls and then disposed of, so few older examples have survived. In the 50s and 60s, pop culture media like film and comic books lent themselves particularly well to anti-Communist propaganda, and they were exploited relentlessly by government agencies, production companies, and corporations. And while we’ve all seen our share of wartime propaganda, we may be less familiar with the decades-long propaganda war the U. Going back to 1914, artists such as Kazimir Malevich worked on propaganda art that skewered Kaiser Wilhelm II, and that avant-garde style would later fuse with references to Russian religiousicons that used the color red to symbolizesalvation and faith. After the war, fences were erected around the numerous bomb sites in Polish cities, and they became street galleries for the posters.

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During this time, critics paid especially close attention to the movie posters that were created in the country.So I gather, judging from the deletions, that any comments remotely critical of Communism are not allowed? Both artists chose similar themes for their works that were inspired by the same thing – sincere faith in the revolution and Soviet power, as well as love for the proletariat. Due to the fact that Samokhvalov possessed undoubted talent, his works became masterpieces of social realism. When paired with an educational system that would indoctrinate and form a “new-man” to embody the Soviet cause, it seemed that the Soviet propaganda machine--and by extension, the Soviets--was unstoppable. Enriched with essays by several experts in a variety of regions, this collection showcases an extraordinary variety of communist art coming from the Soviet Union, China, Mongolia, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and several countries in Eastern Europe.