Old Soviet movie posters

[PSPS]

Brothers in arts.

The Stenberg brothers’ posters are as beguiling today as they ever were
Published on Friday, 26 August, 2011 | 11:30 am

While debates rage about the relevance of the poster to contemporary graphic design (see 'Help!' and 'Olympic deliverance' on the Eye blog), writes Alexander Ecob, one is irresistibly drawn to work from a time when posters were vital.

To many, the early days of the Soviet Union are seen as a golden age of poster design. Fuelled by a combination of exploding idealistic and artistic movements in post-revolutionary Russia and the emergence of practitioners such as Aleksandr Rodchenko, all backed by a new Bolshevik government strongly supportive of design, it is plain to see why.


Georgii & Vladimir Stenberg, A Fragment of an Empire (1929). Courtesy Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.

More at: http://blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=7096

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Wow.....way cool.

[Starry Messenger]

2. k&r

[wtmusic]

3. Before Photoshop there was the airbrush, and the lost art of using it.

And that is some phenomenal work.

[Imajika]

4. Wow, really neat stuff...

Thanks for posting this.

[provis99]

5. feh. Soviet totalitarian kitsch.

No different than the crap that Nazi Germany produced in the 1930's.