65th Great Victory Anniversary: “Propaganda posters and wartime photographs 1941-1945"

The Central House of Artists is holding an exhibition “Propaganda posters and wartime photographs 1941-1945” which is dedicated to the 65^th anniversary of Great Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition will be launched on February, 19.

The event has been organized by the joint efforts of the “Center on social realism art propaganda” and the Yelena Zenina Art Gallery with a support of the Moscow City Department of Culture.

The exhibition will display over 50 authentic propaganda posters, created by Leningrad artists during 1942-43, and also wartime photographs of 1943-45 from the private archive of Alexander Zenin, Hero of Russia, holder of St. Alexander Nevsky Order, participant of the 1945 Victory Parade, and a strafer.

The Great Patriotic war posters called for the Motherland’s defense, and supported an idea of liberation war. Moscow and Leningrad branches of the “Art” (“Iskusstvo”) State publishing house were major centers of the posters’ mass production during 1941–1945.

The exhibition focuses the visitors’ attention on posters’ sketches and layouts, made in different techniques: ink, gouache, tempera and watercolors. All these works of art illustrate battles of the Red Army and a heroic labour of front home workers.