Political Propaganda Art

Vibrant and bold illustrations from Soviet and Chinese propaganda art, featuring themes of revolution, labor, and societal change, often with strong colors.

The Fascist vulture Found Out that We Are Not Sheep!, Deni (Denisov), Viktor Nikolaevich (1893-1946)

Russian master State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 1930 Lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia History,Poster and Graphic design Poster

This Chinese coloured poster shows a young female figure and a young male figure, brushing and spraying rid of rats and insects. The female is shown using the broom and the male is shown using pesticides. A Chinese character is shown between them that translates as 'good fortune'. Dated c1920

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Nikolai Kogout, 1920's

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Konstantin Urbetis, 1920's

Posters, Russia, 20th century. The Russian Revolution, illustration by Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov (1894-1971), 1905.

Otto Plattner (b. 29 June 1886, d. 20 October 1951), Swiss painter, graphic artist: advertising, economy, total sale only for a short time, Louvre, Basel, 1923, Switzerland, reproduction of a poster, A Napoleon soldier as a drummer, advertising a sale, caricature style

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Dimitry Moor, 1920's

The Fascist vulture Found Out that We Are Not Sheep!, Deni (Denisov), Viktor Nikolaevich (1893-1946)

All Right, So He's Dead!... (Il est mort, entendu!...) from Crimes et chtiments, special issue of the journal L'Assiette au beurre (1 March 1902). Dimensions: 32.4 cm x 24 cm, 26.6 cm x 19.4 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: FELIX VALLOTTON.

Shegal, Grigori Mikhailovich (1889-1956) Russian State Library, Moscow 1931 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia History,Poster and Graphic design Poster

Praca dla Polski, Polska dla pracy. Glinicki, Zygmunt (1898-1940), author, Główczewski, Władysław (Warszawa ; zakład litograficzny ; 1877-1949), printing house, Naczelny Pracowniczy Komitet Wyborczy (Warszawa ; organizacja), publisher

Depictions of the Palio of Siena,

Leon Trotsky (Russian: Лев Дави́довч Тро́цкй; born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein (7 November 1879 - 21 August 1940) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. Trotsky was initially a supporter of the Menshevik Internationalists faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He joined the Bolsheviks immediately prior to the 1917 October Revolution, and eventually became a leader within the Party. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army as People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs. He was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918-23). He was also among the first members of the Politburo. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Unio

Color artwork by Adolf Hildenbrand from 1905 depicting the Lion Brewery in Waldshut, showing architectural details and surrounding environment.

Klutsis, Gustav (1895-1938) Russian State Library, Moscow 1934 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia History,Poster and Graphic design Poster

Rotov, Konstantin Pavlovich (1902-1959) Russian State Library, Moscow 1930 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia Poster and Graphic design Poster

Between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, Japanese graphic design as represented in advertsing posters, magazine covers and book covers underwent a series of changes characterised by increasing Western influence, a growing middle class, industrialisation and militarisation, as well as (initially) left wing political ideals and (subsequently) right wing nationalism and the influence of European Fascist art forms.

Partitura musical del chotis titulado El Noi de Sans, del maestro A. Urmeneta. Dibujo de Frisco. Años 1926.

Design of a theatre poster by Sudeykin, Sergei Yurievich (1882-1946) State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Gouache on paper 136x105,5 Russia Theatrical scenic painting Opera, Ballet, Theatre,Poster and Graphic design Painting

Brigade of the creative association ISORAM. Design of a decorative installation for the Volodarsky district of Leningrad by May 1, 1931.

Klutsis, Gustav (1895-1938) Russian State Library, Moscow 1930 104x74,5 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia History,Poster and Graphic design Poster

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Nikolai Kogout, 1920's

Kurdov, Valentin Ivanovich (1905-1989) Russian State Library, Moscow 1931 Screenprinting Soviet political agitation art Russia Mythology, Allegory and Literature,History Book Art

Election poster of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSC), 1925. Facsimilie, lithograph. Printed by A. Haase, Prague. National Gallery. Prague. Czech Republic.

España. Catalunya. Publicidad. Cartel del Primer Campeonato Nacional de Tenis de Sitges, septiembre de 1934. Author: Josep Morell Macías.

Kulagina, Valentina Nikiforovna (1902-1987) Russian State Library, Moscow 1930 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia History,Poster and Graphic design Poster

May Day 1920. On the ruins of capitalism the fraternity of peasants and workers marches against the peoples of the world. Artist, Nicolas Kotcherguine. Soviet Social Realism.

The giants of the financial world - Morgan and Vanderbilt Date: 1910

Inaba Shirai Gonpachi Leaves His Home (Shirai Gonpachi hongoku o tachinoku, Inaba), section of sheet no 12 from the series Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue) 1852 Japan. Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet . Utagawa Hiroshige

Secretaria de Educacion Publica . Artist: Julio Prieto Printed By: Talleres Graficos de la Nacion. 1942 - 1945. Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945. World War II Foreign Posters

Expo 67 Mural--Firepole 33' x 17'. James Rosenquist (American, born 1933); published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955). Date: 1967. Dimensions: 840 x 445 mm (image); 1,015 x 572 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black, with pastel additions, on white wove paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Well, woe onto you, Capitalist..., Kochergin, Nikolai Mikhaylovich (1897-1974)

Odd-Characters. Dated: published 1801. Medium: hand-colored etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Thomas Rowlandson.

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration, 1920's

Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957). Czech painter and graphic artist. International Gang of Capitalists. From the cycle Money, 1901. Pen, India ink, watercolour, ink, paper. National Gallery. Prague. Czech Republic.

Palais de Glace. Jules Chéret, (French, 1836-1932); printed by Imprimerie Chaix. Date: 1891. Dimensions: 1240 × 879 mm. Color lithograph on cream wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Postcard depicting Japanese propaganda. Dated 20th Century

Russian Folk art and culture exhibition poster 1920

Lobanov, Arkadi Vasilyevich (1901-1980s) Russian State Library, Moscow 1930 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia History,Poster and Graphic design Poster

Russian State Library, Moscow Kukryniksy (Art Group) (20th century) Food concentrate packaging 28,5x25,7 History,Poster and Graphic design 18825 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art

French illustration showing, Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918), French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his play Cyrano de Bergerac

Warning!.

30th lounge of humorists Suzanne Musson. "30th lounge of humorists". Lithography, 1937.

Mexican Clown, no 5 1871-1913 México. Relief engraving on typemetal on paper . José Guadalupe Posada

Color illustration from 1901 by an anonymous artist depicting the anniversary exhibition in Riga, showing exhibition halls and displayed artworks.

Between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, Japanese graphic design as represented in advertsing posters, magazine covers and book covers underwent a series of changes characterised by increasing Western influence, a growing middle class, industrialisation and militarisation, as well as (initially) left wing political ideals and (subsequently) right wing nationalism and the influence of European Fascist art forms.

Knight on the walls of a burning castle SADAHIDE, UTAGAWA (1807 1873)

We have smashed our enemies with the force of arms. .... Comrades to work!, 1920. Soviet propaganda poster by Nicolai Kogout. Russia USSR Communism Communist

Depicts an illustration by Carl Josef around 1910 titled 'They Don't Read the Morning', created in color, showing figures, gestures, and narrative scene.

Poster for l' Exposition Russe. Russian Exhibition in Paris, Champs de Mars, Caran d'Ache (1859-1909), Artist.

A color poster from 1911 for the VI. Vseskolsky MET event in Prague, showing event title, date, and design elements typical of early 20th-century graphic art.

Glory to the winner - The Red Army Soldier!, Moor, Dmitri Stachievich (1883-1946)

Iordansky, Boris Vyacheslavovich (1903-1983) Russian State Library, Moscow 1934 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia History,Poster and Graphic design Poster

Manufacturing Might, Chinese Communist Propaganda

Cover illustration by Ethel Reed for Albert Morris Bagby's novel 'Miss Dreaming', published in Boston by Lamson Wolffe & Co., 1895, in color.

America and the Americans , Books

Dibujo juvenil para cuaderno de pintura nacionalista. Dibujo de Laokin, 1937. Editado en Zaragoza.

Festivities marking the opening of the second congress of the Comintern', 1921. Artist: Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev. Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev was a Russian painter and stage designer.

Russian Poster and Graphic design by Leon Bakst, Color lithograph, 1899, 1866-1924, Russia, Moscow, Russian Master State History Museum, 70x102

Color print by Adolf Karpellus from 1907 depicting the 21st watercolor exhibition at Künstlerhaus, showing displayed paintings, visitors, and gallery interior.

Pimenov, Yuri Ivanovich (1903-1977) Russian State Library, Moscow 1929 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia History,Poster and Graphic design Poster

Judge Magazine: The Democratic Barbara Frietchie, Judge Magazine

Young people - go to the stadiums! by Golovanov, Leonid Fyodorovich (1904-)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1947/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Soviet political agitation art/ Poster and Graphic design

Color print by Ludwig Koch depicting Christmas and New Year maps for a postal card exhibition, created around 1910, showing festive designs and postal themes.

Our Gift of Freedom, from The Criterion. Roc Wagner; probably American, 19th century. Date: 1899. Dimensions: 293 x 205 mm. Color lithograph on newsprint. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

S.S. "Veendam" Holland-America Line. 1948. Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. text. Menus. Rare Book Division

The Fall of Chinchow Fort. Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japan, 1847-1915). Japan, 1894. Prints; woodblocks. Triptych; color woodblock prints

Belgian advertising poster by Fernand Fernel, colour lithograph, 1899, 1872-1934, Private Collection

Soviet sports parade by Samokhvalov, Alexander Nikolayevich (1894-1971)/ State Art Museum, Nizhny Tagil/ 1937/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Soviet political agitation art/ 121x121/ Genre

Bulanov, Dmitry Anatolyevich (1898-1942) Russian State Library, Moscow 1931 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia History,Poster and Graphic design Poster

On Satan's mount.. text. Advertising, Posters. 1895 - 1911. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Publishing industry, Posters, American, Book & magazine posters

During late 1920s and 1930s Japan, a new poster style developed that reflected the growing influence of the masses in Japanese society. These art posters were strongly influenced by the emerging political forces of Communism and Fascism in Europe and the Soviet Union, adopting a style that incorporated bold slogans with artistic themes ranging from Leftist socialist realism through Stateism and state-directed public welfare, to Militarism and Imperialist expansionism. Though diverse in their messages, all bear the stamp of the ovebearing proletarian art of the time, reflecting shades of Nazi Germany, Socialist Russia and Fascist Italy in the Far East.

Spain. Civil War. 'ÁMiliciano! Antes morir que retroceder' (Militia man! Rather die than retreat). Poster of the Republican side. Painting. Private Collection.

News

Moor, Dmitri Stachievich (1883-1946) Russian State Library, Moscow 1920 Lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia Poster and Graphic design Poster

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, "Red and White Kerchiefs", Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by V. Lyushin, 1920's

Propaganda poster mounted on a wall in the school at the town of Pripyat, the town abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Exposition poster art in Japan between approximately 1925 and 1941 mirrors the rapid militarisation of society and the growth of militarism, statism and fascism during the Showa Era. In the 1920s expo poster art features elements of modern art and even Art Deco. Themes are whimsical and outward looking, representing Japan's growing importance and influence in the world of international commerce and art. By the 1930s this kind of poster art had grown much more bleak, less concerned with human themes and more directed towards statism and social control. Feminine imagery disappears to be replaced by wheels of industry, with distinct similarities to contemporary Nazi art in Fascist Germany. From the outbreak of full scale hostilities with China through to Pearl Harbour and Japan's entry into World War II, ponderous, heavy machinery, marching soldiers, menacing guns and above all bomber aircraft combine to give the posters a crushing, inhuman, Orwellian aspect. This epitomises Japanese fasc

Gitsevich, Vera Adamovna (1897-1976) Russian State Library, Moscow 1932 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia History,Poster and Graphic design Poster

Choubrac, Alfred (n.1853-12-30-D.1902-07-24), Russian/ horse/ and ethnographic exhibition/ Champ de Mars/ 1895 (title registered (letter)), 1895. Color lithography. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

Avvakumov, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1908-1945) Russian State Library, Moscow 1941 61x85 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia History,Poster and Graphic design Poster

Cartel modernista de Els 4 gats, Puchinel.lis.1899. Colección privada. Author: RAMON CASAS.

Portada del libro de vidas de santos Fruits Primerencs, editada en Barcelona en 1936, con ilustraciones de J. Llimona, J. Junceda y F. Guerrero.

Koretsky, Viktor Borisovich (1909-1998) Russian State Library, Moscow 1948 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia History,Poster and Graphic design Poster

Bookplate of Karl Wallo: Jsem šaškem života. Stafl, Otakar (1884-1945), graphic artist

illustration from 'La Vie Lyonnais' by Emmanuel Vingtrinier, 1898. Lithograph by Jean Coulon (fl.1898)

Komarov, Alexey Ivanovich (1879-1977) Russian State Library, Moscow 1923 Colour lithograph Soviet political agitation art Russia Poster and Graphic design Poster

Uncle Sam standing over Railroad, Tanks, and Factories.

The Left March, 1941 by Aleksandr Alexandrovich Deyneka (1899 - 1969) Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist and sculptor, regarded as one of the most important Russian modernist figurative painters of the first half of the 20th century.

Socialist Realism is a style of realistic art which developed under Socialism in the Soviet Union and became a dominant style in other communist countries. Socialist Realism is a teleologically-oriented style having as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism. Although related, it should not be confused with Social Realism, a type of art that realistically depicts subjects of social concern. Unlike Social Realism, Socialist Realism generally glorifies the ideology of the communist state.

Cartel modernista. Llegiu opinió. Museo de Historia de Barcelona (MUHBA). Author: JOSEP PALOMA.

España. Portada de la novela "Los Bandidos del RIF", Tomo 1, de Emilio Salgari. Editorial Saturnino Calleja. Madrid, año 1920. Author: RAFAEL PENAGOS.

Canada/UK: Canadian Pacific Steamships poster for the British Empire Exhibition, London, 1924

If you want to be healthy - harden yourself! by Koretsky, Viktor Borisovich (1909-1998)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1950/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Soviet political agitation art/ Poster and Graphic design

Prusakov, Nikolai Petrovich (1900-1952) Russian State Library, Moscow 1926 102x73 Colour lithograph Soviet Art Russia Poster and Graphic design Poster

The last days of French Colonial attempts in India. French colonial days, vintage illustrations from watercolors by Henry Darien

Russian Poster and Graphic design, Color lithograph, circa 1900, Russia, Moscow, Russian Master State History Museum, 102x68

Bulanov, Dmitry Anatolyevich (1898-1942) Russian State Library, Moscow 1926 Colour lithograph Soviet Art Russia Poster and Graphic design Poster

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