Exhibition «From history of Soviet propaganda. Antireligious placard from collection of State museum of history of religion» opens at Museum « Island-town Sviyazhsk»

From  July  23, Exhibition  «From history of Soviet  propaganda. Antireligious placard from collection of State museum of history of religion»  opens at  State  historic-architectural and art museum  «Island-town  Sviyazhsk»

The most important monuments of national history are soviet antireligious placards. They are  documental witnesses to  fight conducted  by Soviet state against religion and Church during all period of its existence.

Soviet placard art was generated in 1918 as one of the forms of party political-agitation work. In conditions of mass illiteracy and low literate population,  simplicity  and  full availability of art language of placard turned it into an efficient means of ideological influence on people. Many prominent artists took part in creation of revolutionary billboards among them: А. Аpsit, D. Мооr, V. Deni, М. Cheremnykh, N. Kogout  and other., and poets, first of all V. Mayakovsky and D. Bedny. They also laid foundation to soviet  antireligious posters. Later in placard graphics worked  А. Deineka, Yu. Ganf, P. Sokolov-Skalya, Kukryniksy, К. Urbetis, B. ioganson and other artists.

The period of the highest  blooming in development of soviet antireligious placard falls on  1920-1930  years  when a system of hard repression of dissidence with relevant ideological, administrative and repressive structures   was established  and tested  in the USSR. In no area  of picture art of that time  (excluding newspaper-magazine graphic) antireligious theme has not received such a wide scale incarnation as in billboards art.

In  1980- years, along increasing crisis of soviet state system, the soviet antireligious placard passed into nothingness.

The exhibition presents  38 placards and 16 toys of antireligious character from collection of State museum of history of religion (St. Petersburg),  spreading  from years 1919  to 1970.

The Exhibition lasts  until September  30.

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