Communist Posters

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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. Adopting their techniques, poster artists emphasised outlined figures, sharply delineated visual symbols, sometimes with a verbal legend. Boris Kustodiev's famous painting of a soldier with a rifle urged Russians to give money to the war effort. A new style of art was required that supported the Maoist line and served the worker, peasant and soldier.

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Building the new state through lightning modernisation and industrialisation was a potent theme even as Civil War tore the country apart, and the second poster shows the Soviet (or All-Russian) proletariat uniting, men and women both, to forge a new reality. The posters that make up a generous gift to St Edmund Hall by our benefactor Mr Bill Broadbent are vivid examples of the genre. It examines the connections between Africans and the Soviet Union, and it’s a fascinating, almost forgotten history. Often highly stylized, posters were largely the work of trained poster artists and contain classics of early Soviet art.communist posters beschikbare foto’s en beelden, of begin een nieuwe zoekopdracht om meer foto’s en beelden te vinden. From the beginning of the existence of the USSR, propaganda was an important tool to spread communist ideology and the principles of collectivism. The anti-fascist theme was an important part of their oeuvre – the poster ‘We will mercilessly defeat and destroy the enemy!

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By the next day, we'd probably exchanged about 100 WhatsApp messages, as we got more and more excited and couldn't stop! As an established master of satirical drawing, he passionately chose to serve the cause of proletarianism with his art.

None could be more visceral than the poster with the heading 1917 October 1920 surmounting the unmistakable Red Army Soldier—very red indeed! Visitors can take a colorful walk down memory lane and experience some of the wildest movie posters ever created in the country.