What is your favorite piece of propaganda art?

[renegade000]

Here's mine:



It's Trotsky! That great Soviet knight, slaying the reactionary capitalist (note the top hat :P) serpent, riding his noble, white steed.

Never fails to make me chuckle. Crazy Bolsheviks ;)

On Edit: Anyone know what the Russian on the snake says?

[BlackVelvetElvis]

1. I love this stuff.

Rodchenko is my favorite.
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1998/rodchenko/
His graphic design and photography is so inspiring.

Some of the lesser stuff is fun too.

[Menshevik]

2. the russian words

"counter revolution"

[renegade000]

4. ah makes sense

thank you

[mopaul]

3. chairman mao

http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/

[markbark]

5. Cyrillic on the snake

from what I can make out is:

KOHTP (covered by coil) PEBO(ehl)(yoo)(ch)(ee)(ya) <-- approximations

Phonetically --> kontra revoloocheeya

Counter revolution.


--MAB

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads

[BlackVelvetElvis]

7. That is a GREAT piece

Unfortunatelly, destroyed not long after it was finished.
Wasn't this in Rockefeller Center?
Diego had guts.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. Yeah but he went to Spain and repainted it

The irony is that the piece was commissioned as a result of the efforts of a CIA group called the Congress for Cultural Freedom whose mission was to USE artists such as Rivera to prove that better art came from free countries...so they commissioned him...he painted it..then they set a wrecking ball to it.

[dryan]

9. Triumph of the Will