Seeking for Utopia (The museum of modern art, Kamakura & Hayama)

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Some facing the Sagami Bay, in the land of scenic Hayama, Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hayama. I like, it's one of the museum.

So, exhibition named Soviet modernism, Russian avant-garde, and to see the poster in search of Matsumoto Ruki collection Utopia was held.

Matsumoto Ruki was active in designer fashion brand, but as a collector of the poster, the name that is known worldwide. From the collection, about 180 points, posters of the Russian Revolution before and after, were exhibited.

1914 pre-revolutionary, the painter Malevich painting, the poet Mayakovsky wrote a sentence, a strong anti-German color, print works. They are using a form of rustic prints traditional Russian called Ruboku,.

At the time, Russia was fighting in World War I Germany. From Russia before the revolution, artists in Russia, what was Ninawasa to create the propaganda of the state, the fate? Its composition is not changed even after the Russian Revolution.

Can be called the centerpiece of this exhibition, the number of propaganda posters of movie people.

In society after the Russian Revolution, confused, and literacy, as outlet for dissatisfaction with the society, plan to take advantage of the movie, and nationalized the film industry, Communist Party of Lenin, the national actively in I have published a movie.

The revolutionary artists, mission, to create a movie poster of such national policy is given.

Most of the posters that were on display are works of Nikolai Purusakofu and Sten Berg brothers. In order to effectively communicate the contents of the movie, you are deformed boldly, the one scene in facial expressions and gestures, movie performer.

Not a poster of the photograph, it's written in illustration, when viewed from the present, it looks really fresh.

Among them, some works and Hollywood of America and movie posters of different countries of Europe. In Russia at the time, in a movie theater across the country, Russian movie, enough of the Soviet Union made​​, had not been created yet to publish. Therefore, foreign films were also exposes many.

Ironic situation in order to stabilize the socialism, and that, to publish a movie of capitalist countries. At the same time, not only movie, in the field of agriculture, the revolutionary government, had done the policy of NEP to admit some of the market principle.

In the last corner, the number of posters intended by the first Five-Year Plan after 1927, the political propaganda people. Such as the number of production planning and performance of steel and coal, as easy-to-understand, graph effective, and fonts of the numbers are used.

By Rotochenko, continuous cropping of posters and the combined materials such as photos and was created as a series product was on display, the history of the Communist Party of the Russian Revolution from the previous.

History of the Russian Revolution after you expressed in a sentence, becomes also many books, are summarized from the poster in a compact. And very easy to understand. Is that we have published together, to become one of the History of the Russian Revolution of the best, no doubt.

Publishers of somewhere, or will not get out?

Eventually, age marks the Stalin era. Initially the Russian Revolution, supported the revolution in terms of art, the Russian avant-garde artists, many of them, so that end tragically soon.

It becomes a mere engineer, Malevich became a painter of the ordinary to draw a painting concrete. Mayakovsky was accomplished pistol suicide in 1930.

Eventually, the Stalin died, the Soviet Union itself collapsed in 1991.

Many of the posters that was left is to tell now, it ever existed, it had a big impact around the world, broke the world history literally, of the country of the Soviet Union, a complex history.