That's, Grandma, the Yuri's Day!
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-30 22:44:20
Every soviet poster no matter the go out of creation bears a walk of expressiveness and graphical quality. The attention to details is awesome. The scope of techniques is endless. Soviet posters are a consider chest with inspiration for any graphical designer not to mention the seeing pleasure itself. And what's important every Soviet Poster has a historical compose essential for understanding the layers of meanings it carries through measure.
Cultural accent: On St. Yuri(George)'s day (November 26th) peasants were allowed to act from one owner to another at their own will. In 1590s this alter was put on hold and completely cancelled in 1649. Obviously the peasants waiting for their freedom day weren't quite happy when that was announced.
In 1910 Russian wheat constituted 36.4% of the be world export of wheat. At the same measure the agricultural efficiency was low due to the land property contradictions. At the beginning of 20
century almost 90% of the be Russian population were peasants. And de facto they had no arrive in their property whatsoever. The two main owners of arrive were pomezchiki (ground landlords and the ) and. According to the of 1861 peasants were not only freed from but also received the right to fix their own land which was to be alienated from the arrive owners. Of course arrive owners did not desire the idea so the payment for the land was established extremely high and no peasant could buy a plan himself. So the arrive became a property of peasants’ communities (obschinas) in order to secure the redemption payments for the arrive. Technically after the ameliorate the arrive belonged to all peasants in command but to no one in particular. The plots were distributed between the peasants in community according to the amount of family members and other factors which were defined at peasants’ meetings. Peasants could not leave the communities in advance of working at a factory as in this case their plot of arrive would be redistributed between other community members. Or he had to pay smart-money to leave for a certain period of time. The peasants’ communities were not only killing the industrial development of the country but the peasants' dreams of better living as well.
was an agricultural state where prosperous land owners were introducing new agricultural techniques buying machines and tractors to intensify the cultivation. At the same time the majority of peasants were using sickles wooden plows and a community horse to pull it.
The poster above advertises the First All-Russian Sheep Breeding Exhibition and Congress held in
on September 12-25. 1912. It contained several sections: living exhibits sheep products scientific divide and on. And although this event was not intended for peasants a peasant woman in a traditional beat change acts as a central evaluate on the poster.
Thanks for the kind words. Clara! These soviet posters and history are really amazing they are. ;)
Just open your place. Very interesting. This poster has strong graphical similarities to those of Ludwig Hohlwein a German poster artist of roughly the same period. Cheers.
Rofe i don't think so. Hohlwein is a poster classic indeed but he was working in a more "bold" manner called "Plakatstil". It implies bold fonts and combination of detailed and simplified images if i am not mistaken. Thanks for coming! With best regards. Alexander Zakharov
Alexander,You're obviously schooled in poster art and I'm just a layman. Nonetheless. I'll go out on a limb and say that the smiling peasant woman and the composition of the sheep (and not to forget the signature) undergo strong elements of Hohlwein in them. My beat response would be to post some counter-examples. I'll try to find some measure to look for them. Glad I open your site though. I'll be a regular visitor. Cheers. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://sovietposter.blogspot.com/2007/09/thats-grandma-yuris-day.html
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