Socialist NOT-realist art

[jookyle]

I'd like to make a thread for everyone to post artwork that is socialist/communist/workers movement, etc. in subject but does not fall under the category of socialist realism. Here's the famous El Lissitzky painting and a Warhol of the hammer and sickle, just to get things rolling.

http://www.designishistory.com/images/lissitzky/BeatTheWhites.jpg

http://www.josephklevenefineartltd.com/AndyWarholHammerSickle.jpg

[prolcon]

I haven't got any high-quality Constructivist images, but I happen to really admire Rodchenko for his work. I prefer socialist realism as a literary method to a visual one, anyway, and even then it could benefit from some experimentation.

[Zukunftsmusik]

my avatar is cool. rodchenko is cool. constructivism in the 20s in russia is generally cool.

constructivist architecture is also cool. Tatlin's tower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatlin%27s_Tower), for example. There was a thread about architecture right after the russian revolution, but I can't find it. There were some great buildings there, which kick stalinist architecture's ass.

[prolcon]

Stalinist architecture is nice and all, but I don't really see how anyone thought it was revolutionary.

[blake 3:17]

http://fundacionmiro.djvpruebas.com/126-large/06001241000-MIRO-AIDEZ-LESPAGNE-1937.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2136/5704271129_8ed33e001b.jpg

[Zukunftsmusik]

Stalinist architecture is nice and all

not really. it's sickening and decadent in my eyes. interesting in its own way, but not at all "nice". late soviet futuristic buildings are really cool, though.

[Zukunftsmusik]

^That "Aidez l'Espagne" one is great. Who made it again?

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[Veovis]

^That "Aidez l'Espagne" one is great. Who made it again?

Joan Miró

[jookyle]

^That "Aidez l'Espagne" one is great. Who made it again?

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are all of these Rodchenko?

[Regicollis]

Not political at all but one of the most prominent Danish communists was the author Hans Scherfig. He was also a painter and is famous for his pictures of exotic animals.
They are still quite popular especially among children. I alwas smile a little when I see well-off parents buy books with paintings done by a communist.
http://www.arken.dk/media(5450,1030)/Hans_Scherfig,_Det_store_tr%C3%A6.jpg

http://www.posterland.dk/lightboxproductimages/hans-scherfig-ved-skovsoeen2.jpg

[Zukunftsmusik]

are all of these Rodchenko?

All except "Vote in the soviet elections" one (the red one with hands all over it), it's by Gustav Klutsis.

[Zukunftsmusik]

Joan Miró

I had the name on my tongue, thanks

[Yazman]

Not political at all but one of the most prominent Danish communists was the author Hans Scherfig. He was also a painter and is famous for his pictures of exotic animals.
They are still quite popular especially among children. I alwas smile a little when I see well-off parents buy books with paintings done by a communist.
http://www.arken.dk/media(5450,1030)/Hans_Scherfig,_Det_store_tr%C3%A6.jpg



Wow! He drew tapirs! That's so freaking awesome!

[hetz]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grosz

Perhaps not "socialist" but still...

[blake 3:17]

Grosz was great. He and Heartfield were the two most radically political (and Communist) of the German Dadaists.

His amazing portraits of Berlin in the 20s and early 30s are phenomenal. There's something a little weird that his pessimism can be understood as not socialist, while many radical philosophers every bit as pessimistic are well regarded.

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/george-grosz-toads-of-property-1920.jpg


http://art-for-a-change.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/grosz_authorities.gif