Monday 29 June 2015

Rainbow warriors



Also interesting that both the pro- and less pro-Putin Twitter are using the same visual methods to make opposite political points.

https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/media
 
 
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https://twitter.com/KremlinResident

Студия 13



https://ugc-about.futurelearn.com/wp-content/uploads/freedom-american-style-svoboda-po-amerikanski.jpg
 
The work of Студия 13 is very interesting. In more than one way it's reminiscent of Krokodil imagery, as these two cartoons illustrate. Studiia 13 appear to be a project founded and supported by MGER, Молодая гвардия, the youth wing of United Russia, and interestingly, they were behind the "Without Filters" («Без фильтров») exhibitions earlier this year.

The influence of Soviet-era graphic satire is very clear, in my view, although some of Studiia 13's methods employ much more crudeness than Krokodil, and much less grotesque.

https://vk.com/13studiya
http://mger2020.ru/projects/2014/12/23/77226
 

Krokodil and Russian folklore

Krokodil cartoons very often employed folkloric characters and themes. Soviet graphic satire owed much to pre-revolutionary popular prints...