Communist Posters

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Instead of promoting artistic events and performances, many posters were more geared toward advertising products. The artists' work was so admired that the city of Krakow announced the first "International Exposition of the Poster" in 1898. As the socialist ideology began to spread through the just founded USSR, he was to become an artistic champion of the revolution and new way of life.

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When you collect something, it's part of your soul, and I'm part of this period in history myself,” he said. For anybody interested in 20th-century art, design and popular culture, it'll be an absolute feast for the eyes, we promise! 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. Here a woman holds Mao's Little Red Book, which was compulsory reading | Yan Yongsheng, Unite for Greater Victory! This blog is inspired by a recent donation of Russian Revolution posters by Bill Broadbent to St Edmund Hall.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. In fact, many of these posters have eventually found their way into museums, due to the strength of their designs. It has also been argued that British war posters exhibited in Petrograd in 1916 may have influenced drafting techniques Russian artists had recently developed. From the earliest days of their little lives, they must find themselves under the beneficent influence of Communist schools.

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One modern-day commentator said this of Cold War-era posters: "The Polish film poster is artist-driven, not studio-driven.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. Unlike other collectibles like furniture, proper restoration can make sought-after posters gain value.