Doesn’t have to be explicitly Marxist of course. I love the WW2 USSR posters and art myself.
EDIT: Is there a site that archives art like that (posters, magazines, zines etc.)?
Doesn’t have to be explicitly Marxist of course. I love the WW2 USSR posters and art myself.
EDIT: Is there a site that archives art like that (posters, magazines, zines etc.)?
Statues count as art, right?
Of course, although im more partial to The Motherland Calls
It’s good but not my favorite. Of course i can appreciate the ideological symbolism there, but stylistically i prefer something that is a bit different from the classical western European aesthetic style, a style which you can very clearly see in the Родина-мать statue, whereas i feel like other Soviet works of art tried to develop a distinct socialist style.
Absolutely!
I also really like how the socialist realism style looks in murals, mosaics and reliefs.
Just a few random examples, not necessarily my favorites
As for poster art, there’s just too much to choose from, but here are a few i found recently:
I like the internationalism in this one
This one just encapsulates optimism for the future
And i appreciate how this one highlights industry and agriculture
And really we should also not forget to mention music as another form of socialist art, but again, way too much to choose from there, best left to a separate post.
Setting this as my profile banner as we speak.
Nice. It’s called “Fighting for Peace”, created for International Workers’ Day in 1950 by a Romanian artist. (I just felt i had to represent socialist Romania; it produced some great art - including film and music - during the socialist period and i sometimes feel like we are a bit under-appreciated among the socialist bloc.)