Communist Posters

Product Information

Over the past few years, we have become friends with major gallery owners, collectors and poster experts in Poland, with who we work really closely. None could be more visceral than the poster with the heading 1917 October 1920 surmounting the unmistakable Red Army Soldier—very red indeed! From 1952 to 1989, the Soviet bloc controlled Poland, and posters were often the only spots of color along the gray, quiet streets in Polish cities. 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.

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

Web Urbanist points us toward one particularly chilling and dishonest piece of propaganda distributed by the government.Many artworks had a positive effect on the public moral and promoted hope, friendship and a healthy lifestyle. Looking at today’s Russia, that post-racial idealism is difficult to locate – judging by recent reports of football racism and a Duma MP’s comparisons of Barack Obama to a monkey. Post-WWII, of course, the greatest threat was not a full-scale invasion—it was total nuclear annihilation. Unlike other collectibles like furniture, proper restoration can make sought-after posters gain value. After seeing these Nazi propaganda posters, read about the four most devastating moments of the Nazi occupation.

10 MAIN propaganda artists of the USSR - Russia Beyond

As the head of the Russian Academy of Arts, he managed to train many highly appreciated Soviet artists. In fact, many of these posters have eventually found their way into museums, due to the strength of their designs. A group of Soviet artists including Mayakovsky and Radakov created the famous Okna ROSTA (ROSTA Windows) brand.In 1925, he joined the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia and focused primarily on painting great leaders of the USSR. Use them in your classroom to present a vivid lesson about where we have come from as a society, or put them in your home office to be inspired as you work on your next political treatise.

Communist Posters by Mary Ginsberg | Goodreads

The former British Museum curatoradds that these posters “have served as vehicles of persuasion, instruction, damnation, and social discourse in every communist nation.Printed to mark The First of May as a worker’s holiday, the poster gives the impression of ceaseless labour rather than rest, and flags everywhere in this landscape drenched in red mark the triumph of the workers’ state. Other exhibitors joining them include ex-Christie's directors Tomkinson Churchers with rare Hockey prints, Travel on Paper with sublime mid-century tourism and travel posters, and Orson and Welles with iconic film posters. In March 1917, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated and State Duma deputies formed the Provisional Government. Unless the happy couple is gazing out over a manicured suburb in the afterlife, this scene of “total living” post-nuclear war is absurd given the strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction. Cheap and quick to create, posterscould spread messages on education, hard work, modernization, the glories of the revolutionaries, andthe importance of recycling, conveying thatinformation even to those who could not read.

Communist Posters The Red Menace: A Striking Gallery of Anti-Communist Posters

Like most of his colleagues, the artist was engaged in propaganda art and created several patriotic anti-Hitler posters.

Chisholm Larsson's founder, Robert Chisholm, says that posters bought in 1991 are probably worth three-times the amount today. Could it be that these posters – and the state-enforced anti-racism behind them – papered over the cracks of Russia’s underlying race problems? Photograph: Wayland Rudd Archive/ Yevgeniy Fiks/Flint This poster from 1957, shows a multicultural group exploring Moscow sights.