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What do an Uzbekistan anniversary, the Red Army, Moscow childcare & early silent movies have in common? They’re all given the Constructivist treatment in these Soviet posters. 1920-1935

Aleksandr Rodchenko.

1 from a series of educational posters on Soviet Communist Party history. They were distributed to the various Soviet republics, hence text in Russian and multiple other languages. Designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko in 1926.

1 from a series of educational posters on Soviet Communist Party history. They were distributed to the various Soviet republics, hence text in Russian and multiple other languages. Designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko in 1926.

Page from a journal celebrating 10 years of the USSR in Uzbekistan.Designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko in 1935.

Page from a journal celebrating 10 years of the USSR in Uzbekistan.Designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko in 1935.

Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Cover art for Kino-phot, a magazine of cinematography and photography. 1922.

Kino-phot featured verses by Vladimir Mayakovsky, photomontage and illustrations by Aleksandr Rodchenko, and graphic designs by Varvara Stepanova.

Cover art for Kino-phot,
a magazine of cinematography and photography. 1922.

Typography within Kino-phot. 1922.

Cover art for Kino-phot, a magazine of cinematography and photography. 1922.

Anonymous.

Arts Left Front magazine cover. Vladimir Mayakovsky. 1923.

Cover art for KINO, a magazine of cinematography and photography. 1925.

Propaganda Stand (Workers of the World Unite).Gustav Klutsis. 1922.

Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg.

See also

William Sharp’s sumptuous 1854 illustrations of The Great Water Lily of America, the “vegetable wonder” that owes it’s life to scarab beetles, has 10 foot wide leaves and flowers that smell of fruit.

Art & Design Nature

Study for Children’s Village mural, Central Park of Culture and Leisure, Moscow. Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg. c. 1928.

Poster for the film Symphony of a Big City.
Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg. c. 1928.

Poster for the filmThe Ghost that isn’t Returning.
Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg. c. 1928.

Poster for the film Adventures of an Abandoned Child. Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg. c. 1928.

Poster for the film Battleship Potemkin, directed by Sergei Eisenstein.
Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg. 1925.

Anonymous.

VHUTEIN, the Higher State Artistic and Technical Institute in Moscow. Brochure cover art.Anonymous. 1927.

“Close ties with the working people are the key to the might of the Red Army”.
Anonymous.1927.

Red Army – Armed forces of the C. C. C. P. protecting the interests of workers.
Anonymous. 1927.

“Red Army – the citizen’s school”.
Anonymous. 1927.

“The shift is growing. Give me a nursery!”Moscow & Leningrad. Public Nursery.
Anonymous. 1930.