Communist Posters

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It was a total spur of the moment idea post-lockdown, but we were buoyed by the spirit of the Polish School of Poster artists who opened the world's first-ever Poster Museum in Warsaw in the 1960s.

The Graphic Persuasiveness of 20th-Century Communist Posters

Yet asinternational influences combined with traditional visual expression, and 20th-century printing technology allowed for mass-produced lithographs, these nations’ outputs represent the height of propaganda posters.

Even though Polish posters were born out of a time of great repression and hardship, Polish poster artists enjoyed unrivalled creative freedom. At first, the leader of the revolution decided that he did not look like himself in the drawings, but the people around convinced him of the opposite. At the height of the red scare, many college professors, like Stanley Moore at Reed College, were dragged before the House Un-American Activities Committee and summarily fired. The specific posters were chosen to highlight important artistic and political features of this type of communication within the social and political milieu. I think, dplace, what you meant to say is academia and the political “left wing” has been purged of Communists and replaced with Fascists and Anarchists.

Russian Revolution: Ten propaganda posters from 1917 - BBC News Russian Revolution: Ten propaganda posters from 1917 - BBC News

She was last seen working in corporate HR, which paid much better than vintage posters, but it never felt satisfying. A new travelling exhibition organised by The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford explores the art made during the tumultuous decade, and includes propaganda posters, revolutionary landscapes, papercuts and household objects. Photograph: Wayland Rudd Archive/ Yevgeniy Fiks/Flint This poster from 1957, shows a multicultural group exploring Moscow sights. The verses printed at the bottom (three quatrains in alternating rhyme) guide the viewer in reading the image: printed to commemorate the third anniversary of the Revolution), the poster and slogans congratulate the population (‘we shall never be slaves again’) and give keys to interpretation (the dragon is that of Imperialism smitten by the proletarian sword). In March 1917, Moscow's Voskresenskaya Square and the city's parliament building became a focal point for revolutionary rallies.

During this time, critics paid especially close attention to the movie posters that were created in the country. Web Urbanist points us toward one particularly chilling and dishonest piece of propaganda distributed by the government.