poster collection (art style of the early 20th century)

[theyounghistorian77]

Sad to say, but the reds do it better.

Perhaps. Obviously the writings and images of communist posters are much more aggressive:

1)example 5, "avenge December 7th" vs Russian "Fire the murderers of our daughters and wives"

2) on ammunition poster where the poster in English says "keep 'em coming", Russian poster says "people and army are unstoppable".

3) on example number 21, Russian poster says "Our cause is just, the enemy will be crushed", while the USA goes on with "keep 'em coming"

4) example 32, "Revenge the sorrow of your people" against "we talk about sacrifice"

5) example 38

I imagine how strikingly effective these posters were. Makes me a little uncomfortable to watch them, to be honest.

p.s. not sure if this is reliable but http://seekingalpha.com/author/james-quinn/instablog scroll down 1/3 of the screen. It's just a quick article from google, but at any rate I highly doubt it's real.

Okays, i'll make some adjustments

 

[Noumenon]

Fascinating stuff. I'm living in Madrid at the moment, teaching English, and I have classes in the Bank of Spain headquarters. The building is interesting archetectuarally, having originally been constructed under the Socialist government and added to at various stages since; I mention it because there are very nice stained glass windows that have the same striking style as the Russian Communist propaganda art, all angular-looking workers in the fields or wielding hammers, etc.

Anyway, why not have a proper gander :roll: at this site: aparently, in Communist Poland the arts were quite heavily censored and painters found it difficult to find free expression. However, when American films were screened the original posters were banned by the state and new ones were commissioned by domestic artists; being nothing but promotions for trivial entertainment, the officials didn't consider these new posters to be worthy of particular scrutiny and as a result the artists took advantage of the unexpected freedom to produce some interesting and occasionally flat out mental things.

I've used these images for quiz games - guess the movie type of thing - and there are some crackers.

 

[theyounghistorian77]

example 41

Here's a maybe, seeing as the american piece is not a poster but instead comes from a newspaper [but it's still within the 20th century so i guess it still counts]. I found it here:

http://www.oldnewsads.com/WWI-Ads.html

 

[theyounghistorian77]

example 42.

example 43.

 

[theyounghistorian77]

Example 44.

 

[theyounghistorian77]

example 45.

 

[theyounghistorian77]

Example 46 (i think this is about as close as im going to get with this German one :lol.