World history: The exhibition of posters of the World War I times prepared in Omsk

Next year will mark 100 years since the beginning of the World War I. By this date, all over the country will be restored memorials, will be published scientific works, and will be open expositions. The collection of posters issued in the early months of the World War I battles, are preparing for an exhibition in the M A. Vrubel Omsk Museum of Fine Arts.

At the beginning of the war only in Moscow were organized more than 60 enterprises, which specialized in the production of cheap popular images and posters. The latest technology was purchased, using the best materials for that time. The first artists and poets of the country were attracted to the production. Before writing his famous "Black Square", Kazimir Malevich worked on such splints. In printing went posters with works of Aristarchus Lentulov, Boris Kustodiev and Konstantin Korovin. The portrait of Don Cossack Kozma Kryuchkov, in the first days of the war "taking the bayonet" 11 opponents was written by Ilya Repin. The dashing Cossack image immediately came to the forefront: Kryuchkov watched with packs of cigarettes. In the rear the best country publishing houses printed posters with the image of a national hero. It is he had to inspire Russian soldiers.

These printed sheets will leave stores for the first nine decades of the existence of the Omsk Museum of Fine Arts.