Totalitarian art

[esaima]

Post interesting/your favourite/notable paintings, sculptures etc from totalitarian/authoritarian regimes and periods

Germany

Albert Janesh
Water sports
http://www.goodart.org/nzrow.jpg

Ernst Liebermann
By the water

http://www.goodart.org/nzswim.jpg

Russia

Vassili Efanov
An Unforgettable Meeting

http://www.learn.columbia.edu/russianart/images/large/KIAER_120902_11.jpg

Alexander Gerasimov
Stalin and Voroshilov in Kremlin

http://andyfreebergphotoart.com/images/guard/Gerimazov.jpg

[Troll's Puzzle]

some saddam pics:
http://i54.tinypic.com/24l3sdl.jpg
http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/0/06/Saddam_Hussein_(1).jpg
http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1566/X1304/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1566-0168743.jpg
^--- it seems you can actually buy a poster of that one... if you want :D
http://www.enterprisemission.com/images/SaddamAnnunaki.jpg
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~klio/im/ane/saddam-nebuchad.jpg

this (below) is a rather crummy 'recreation' of one of the saddam murals by some american guy who made recreations of various of the destroyed murals, complaining that their loss was 'like the talaban destroying the buddahs' (!). Interesting imagery although not great painting, unfortunately I couldn't find a picture of the original.
http://i56.tinypic.com/ormfye.jpg




intresting little gallery of art Saddam had:
link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/2956349.stm)
too small, but it seems Saddam was a fan of kitsch fantasy art- how revealing ;) - critics often called totalitarian art esp. russian as 'kitsch'.
a larger pic of one of them:
http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1050172713510_2003/04/17/war_fantasy.jpg
this was another - apparantly
http://thomasfortenberry.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/rowdude12.jpg

[Yona]

Saddam&TheDevil

[Yona]

sorry it's too small. you can find it in Southpark art.

even toys...

[Yona]

My favourite is learder's theme in comics of North Korea
http://wordswithoutborders.org/graphic-lit/from-great-general-mighty-wing/

also "Blizzard in the Jungle" about a group lost in African jungles
(source:Words Without Borders)

5792

5793

also check chosonhwa painting

5794

there are more of chosonhwa, but what i can say is that the style and settings are one-to-one with Soviet social realism ;-)

[RoyBatty]

Some fantastic examples from the USSR

http://www.utdallas.edu/~bxc044000/images/CurranPoster4.jpg

http://andrikyrychok.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/0000-7136-4cccp-russian-propaganda-posters2.jpg

I love this photo:

http://englishrussia.com/images/more_pictures_ussr_70_2/6.jpg

Another iconic photo

http://lh3.ggpht.com/trenthead/SCIeX7rV1SI/AAAAAAAABRQ/pcvsoDg5_LY/01020,1170014,00%201.jpg?imgmax=800

[RoyBatty]

North Korea.

http://www.travel-earth.com/dprk/pyongyang-mansudae.jpg

http://www.english-online.at/current_affairs/north-korea/north-korean-war-monument.jpg

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/yeowatzup-On-both-sides-of-the-gargantuan-statue-of-Kim-Il-Sung-stands-equally-massive-monuments-depicting-the-anti-Japanese-revolutionary-struggle-and-socialist-revolutionconstruction.jpg

http://photos.adrianbye.com/Asia-Pacific/North-Korea/20090616northkorea096/623469612_L5y5B-XL-3.jpg

http://photos.adrianbye.com/Asia-Pacific/North-Korea/20090619northkorea319/623477127_aeMfB-XL-3.jpg

http://photos.adrianbye.com/Asia-Pacific/North-Korea/20090619northkorea326/623477394_24Kht-XL-3.jpg

http://photos.adrianbye.com/Asia-Pacific/North-Korea/20090616northkorea103/623469996_xKWv5-XL-3.jpg

http://photos.adrianbye.com/Asia-Pacific/North-Korea/20090617northkorea020/623470666_ppRXA-XL-3.jpg

[Cato]

The Romans wrote the book on totalitarian art forms.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Statue-Augustus.jpg/400px-Statue-Augustus.jpg

[Eldritch]

The totalitarian art of our own era seems to rely on childlike naïvete to transmit its brutalist message:

http://www.psu.edu/ur/archives/intercom_2001/April12/Images/ARTS_HUB.jpg

http://www.funkorchildart.com/images/Multicultural%20Harmony%20by%20Sara%2010,%20Zehra% 2012,%20Ayla%2011.jpg

[W. R.]

The totalitarian art of our own era seems to rely on childlike naïvete to transmit its brutalist messageThe pictures look so... Soviet. :eek:

http://srdc.ru/uploaded/nboogie/nb08/party1.jpg

[Raskolnikov]

There ought to be a law! :eek:

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg269/scaled.php?tn=0&server=269&filename=avatarmovie34full.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640
"She's hot, bro."

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/2498/katehudson3.jpg
"She's hot, bro."

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4821/asdfju.jpg
"She's hot, bro."

Or the Blaxican version: What are you talkin bout? She's hella bomb.

All the "art" is for this same archetypal dumb guy and people that can't draw:
http://www.funkorchildart.com/images/Multicultural%20Harmony%20by%20Sara%2010,%20Zehra% 2012,%20Ayla%2011.jpg

[la bombe]

Some Soviet posters

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster.jpg

ATTENTION EVERYBODY
THE WORKERS OF LENINGRAD FACTORIES
FULFILL THE FIVE YEAR PLAN ON
MAIN PRODUCTS
IN THREE YEARS
PROLETARIAT OF THE UNION
FOLLOW THE CITY OF LENIN

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster2.jpg

These are not the animals with wild howl
Crossing stormy river flow.
This is Hitler kicking
Troops eastward.

Here where all the windows are loop-holes,
And the bushes hide death,
Here after tasting the foreign ground,
The fooled fritzes
Transform into grave crosses.

And this death of German bastards
Have no magic whatsoever.
This is military triumph of
The Red Army

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster3.jpg

Man’s power – to help the woman!


http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster4.jpg

Let's conquer the virgin blue!

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster5.jpg

Nowhere but in Mosselprom

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster6.jpg

Down with kitchen slavery! Let there be new household life!

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster7.jpg

Purity – to Seas!

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster8.jpg

Death to world imperialism

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster9.jpg

Glory to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War! Glory to the Stalin’s falcons!

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster10.jpg

“The Battleship Potemkin” movie poster

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster11.jpg

Father, kill the German!

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster12.jpg

Work is essential, the rifle is near.

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster13.jpg

The Zoo has just received a big lot of various animals, the Zoo is improved and expanded, the animals now live in new cage-houses, shows for children are performed at holidays

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster14.jpg

People and the party are undivided.

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster15.jpg

Let's accomplish the plan of great deeds!

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll291/labombe0101/poster16.jpg

Socially dangerous

[Osweo]

The pictures look so... Soviet. :eek:

http://srdc.ru/uploaded/nboogie/nb08/party1.jpg

No... Your picture reveals the Stalinist national policy. Not necessarily anti-national at all. It looks a bit like the animals waiting to board Noah's ковчег...

Бытие 6
19 Введи также в ковчег из всех животных, и от всякой плоти по паре, чтоб они остались с тобою в живых; мужеского пола и женского пусть они будут.
20 Из птиц по роду их, и из скотов по роду их, и из всех пресмыкающихся по земле по роду их, из всех по паре войдут к тебе, чтобы остались в живых.


And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. :thumb001:

[Peasant]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/SA_mann_Brand_poster.jpg

[W. R.]

No... Your picture reveals the Stalinist national policy. Not necessarily anti-national at all. It looks a bit like the animals waiting to board Noah's ковчег...Fine analogy. :thumb001:

I think I indeed chose a wrong picture to illustrate what I meant.

[RoyBatty]

The pictures look so... Soviet. :eek:

http://srdc.ru/uploaded/nboogie/nb08/party1.jpg

You mean EU European. :D :thumb001:

[Yona]

The totalitarian art of our own era seems to rely on childlike naïvete to transmit its brutalist message:

http://www.psu.edu/ur/archives/intercom_2001/April12/Images/ARTS_HUB.jpg

http://www.funkorchildart.com/images/Multicultural%20Harmony%20by%20Sara%2010,%20Zehra% 2012,%20Ayla%2011.jpg

is this totalitarian art? certainly, they have a message but...
hmm...it doesn't look like brutalist. it reminds things from children's art.
would you mention the country/artist of this painting? are these things murals or posters?

[Eldritch]

is this totalitarian art? certainly, they have a message but...
hmm...it doesn't look like brutalist. it reminds things from children's art.
would you mention the country/artist of this painting? are these things murals or posters?

Well, I didn't mean the actual artistic style, more the mentality and ideology behind this kind of art.

[Debaser11]

Camel-f*cker totalitarian art:

http://zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/islamic_mo_full/mo_hamza_banu.jpg

Uhhh *head scratch*:

http://iranpoliticsclub.net/photos/nazi-girls1/images/Nazi%20Art%20Poster%20-%20Waffen%20SS%20Girl.jpg


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AuPoOCVtSzM/S3GSnt67osI/AAAAAAAAB48/nk4DmWGwVwo/s400/adolf+hitler+nazi+propaganda+es+lebe+deutschland.j pg


And in the spirit of concurring with Eldritch's selection, I'll just add the following:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Yz_gRNr1p94/SGFBR4Z6IFI/AAAAAAAAGgY/1lyAsgTZpFk/s400/captainplanet6.jpg

[Cato]

The Romans wrote the book on totalitarian art forms.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Statue-Augustus.jpg/400px-Statue-Augustus.jpg

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/lat311moore/LAT311images/lat311images2/rostracuria.jpg

A painted reconstruction of the Roman Forum circa the late Republic. And again, I say, The Romans wrote the book on totalitarian art forms.

[Cato]

And a model of the Forum of the Flavian years, after the completion of the Colesseum- Titus' reign in the early 80s.

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/lat311moore/LAT311images/lat311images2/forummodel.jpg

Art forms, hah, Roman architecture was a totalitarian form of art.

[Eldritch]

Just came across some art from Soviet brochures for the 1958 World Expo:

http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ussr-brochure-3.jpg

http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ussr-brochure-2.jpg

http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ussr-brochure-1.jpg

[Gamera]

^^^^

My stepfather is a communist, he lived in the USSR and the DDR, I could probably scan thousands of propaganda and pamphlets he has in his closets and whatnot...

I took a picture of this from one of his closets, long time ago, just to put an example:

http://i51.tinypic.com/30neu0x.jpg

[Troll's Puzzle]

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/lat311moore/LAT311images/lat311images2/rostracuria.jpg

A painted reconstruction of the Roman Forum circa the late Republic. And again, I say, The Romans wrote the book on totalitarian art forms.

what did the romans write in this book that the Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Chinese...etc hadn't already?

[Cato]

what did the romans write in this book that the Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Chinese...etc hadn't already?

Vini. Vidi. Vici.

[Aramis]

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/PearlHarborPoster.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/sr/0/0c/Black_hawk_down_ver1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Top_Gun_Movie.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Enemy_at_the_gates_ver2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Gijane.jpg

[Debaser11]

^ Definite war propaganda. The king of war propaganda in the modern age is Schindler's List, though.

[RoyBatty]

^^^^

My stepfather is a communist, he lived in the USSR and the DDR, I could probably scan thousands of propaganda and pamphlets he has in his closets and whatnot...

I took a picture of this from one of his closets, long time ago, just to put an example:

http://i51.tinypic.com/30neu0x.jpg

Hi-res scans please :D

[RoyBatty]

Just came across some art from Soviet brochures for the 1958 World Expo:

http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ussr-brochure-3.jpg

http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ussr-brochure-2.jpg

http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ussr-brochure-1.jpg

These are great! Thanks Eldritch

[RoyBatty]

My humble contribution to preserving some relics from the glory days of the Soviet Union:
I've got a few more to scan but don't have a scanner atm.

These magazines were modelled on "Readers Digest" and provided some interesting articles on life in the Soviet Union.

http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/art/print-media/sputnik/index.htm

[Gamera]

Hi-res scans please :D

I might when I have the time. :D

[Yona]

My humble contribution to preserving some relics from the glory days of the Soviet Union:
I've got a few more to scan but don't have a scanner atm.

These magazines were modelled on "Readers Digest" and provided some interesting articles on life in the Soviet Union.

http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/art/print-media/sputnik/index.htm

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Osweo]

http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/art/print-media/sputnik/index.htm

Yay!!!!!!! Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov on the front of January 1971! I used to live near his flat, and knew people who'd worked with him. :p

I've got TONS of stuff in boxes myself, which I might show some time. :)

[Yona]

this magazine issues are great! haven't heard of it before but as far as i understand it was a special edition targeted at Western countries...
not always succesfully though :) see article
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-6851938.html
(if you can read it with Free trial))

it'd be rather interesting to see some of comics books or comic strips related to this theme (i mean Soviet or communist power) i should've done some research on it but i'm sure what i'll find will be total propaganda. still i suppose there might be some works mocking on or critisizing the system (e.g. brought by emmigrant artists )
??? :)

[esaima]

Estonian art from Stalin's era

Viktor Karrus "Grain for the state", 1953

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2807693453_923e16edea.jpg?v=0

Ants Viidalepp
"Young model plane aviators", 1951
http://www.museumsinmotion.net/images/73015Viidalepp_Pienoismallilentajat.jpg

Viktor Karrus, Roman Treuman, beginning of 1950ies
"The tractor drivers are discussing a call for socialist competition"

http://www.kolumbus.fi/marjaleena.etula/images/kumu/IMG_3692.jpg

[esaima]

Some placards from Stalin´s era


"The power of peace is invincible!"

http://www.museumsinmotion.net/images/73015fredensstyrka.jpg

“Long live the 1st of May!”

http://www.museumsinmotion.net/images/73015_ACE3988.jpg

"Stakhanovite model soviet worker guarantees the continuing peace!"

http://www.museumsinmotion.net/images/73015prew_SotsPlak07005.jpg

[Cato]

Raise Old Glory you commie-loving bastards! :grumpy: At least we yanks fly the colors chosen by Anglosaxons, and not apostate Jew filth like the Marxleninstalin crowd. :)

http://www.firstblueangel.com/galleries/08_Blue_Angels_Pictures_and_Posters/Old_Glory_and_the_Blue_Angels.jpg

[esaima]

Pallamedes Raise Old Glory you commie-loving bastards! Lol.Have I ever told that i´m commie-loving??

[Cato]

Lol.Have I ever told that i´m commie-loving??

Comrade Uncle Sam says you all are!

http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/33500/Communist-Uncle-Sam-33731.jpg