Propaganda lithographs from
’Russian Placards, Placard Russe 1917-1922’
by Vladimir Lebedev, 1923
▻http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.fr/2014/01/russian-placards.html
"The activities of the painter, designer, illustrator, and constructivist, Vladimir Lebedev, encompass a very broad period: from the early 1910s through to the early 1960s, and, consequently, his stylistic [oeuvre] connects with many different trends and avenues of inquiry. In fact, Lebedev started his artistic career as a graphic designer when he was only 14 years old by designing postcards for the Fietta Art Store on the Bolshaia Morskaia in St. Petersburg (his home town); and only a few years later he was already a prolific illustrator of popular and children’s magazines[..]
Consciousness of the material of the work (the ink, the print, the lightness of the paper, the brilliant color of the poster’s chromolithography) is [..] a condition that unites the various artistic experiences and concerns of Lebedev’s career. For example, Lebedev’s activity as a caricaturist for the St. Petersburg satirical journal, ’Novyi Satirikon’ (New Satyricon) might seem to be quite contrary to his experimental compositions for the posters that he designed for Okna ROSTA (the display windows of the Russian Telegraph Agency) just after the Revolution.
The union of village and town (workman and villager)
A work-woman. (Raising productivity through joining
together small hand-working and trade industries).
A bourgeois tearing his hair on account of the
second meeting of the International Congress.
