Secondary Research- Russian Revolutionary artwork

Conveniently during my study of revolution the Royal academy were displaying art work from Russia from 1917 to 1932- displaying the work created in a time when the Revolutionary Bolsheviks had won the Civil war and as a result, Russia. The art was extremely interesting as it showed how the people responded to the victory of revolution. I hoped that looking at this would inspire any ideas for visuals of my film, i like giving my pieces a unique and surrealist look that is often captured in paintings.

Death of a Commissar (1928)

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

This image represented the price of victory in the Russian Civil War as a Red Army soldier lies in the arms of his Comrade. The picture symbolises the Russians potentially moving on and forgeting the sacrifices made for them to live thier lives under Bolshevism

Tram Condcuter

Alexander Samokvalov, 1928

This painting was the symbol of Russia's social and economic progress under the Bolsheviks in the late 1920s. It showed how industrialisation had changed Russia, and how women had become a greater force in society, here the conductor stands tall and powerful under the blue flash of electric.

This was a protest piece from the early 1920s, depicting Russia as massive, hellish prison of which Vladimir Lenin is the centre, flanked by his politburo with soliders supressing the white army in each corner. Work like this would have been outlawed, epecially after Stalins succeful rise to power.