(This screenprint from 2016 I made using old Time Magazines.)
There's a good chance that you go out today that everywhere you look will be some imagery trying to convince you something. BUY THIS FOOD, BUY THESE CLOTHES, BUY THIS STORY.
Though propaganda can be found all across much of modern history, these iconic works from the Soviet Union have such a lasting powerful effect because they are so outright in their Leninist political agenda and use the colors to drawin and mesmerize the viewer. Red black white the universal symbolism of propaganda and the most eye-catching combo of colors discovered from the constructionism and later co-opted by 1900s Russian propaganda.
(Klutis)
(Rodchenko left, Klutis right)
Later these posters would inspire American Artist Barbara Kruger.
She would later blantatly copied by the clothing brand Supreme
and a bit more graceful by Shepard Fairey' graphic design and OBEY brand.
