Society and Culture: An exhibition dedicated to Soviet propaganda art is opened in the State Russian Museum

An exhibition "Art in life. 1918-1925" was opened in the Benois Wing of the State Russian Museum (Saint-Petersburg) from August 17 to November 20, 2017.

The exhibition is designed to show the Soviet propaganda art of the first post-revolutionary years, which was truly massive, embracing the most diverse aspects of everyday life. The basis of the exposition of the exhibition, held in the year of the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, was the production of the Decorative Institute, which operated in Petrograd-Leningrad in 1918-1926. The Decorative Institute is a vivid example of an integrated approach to the creation of art objects and the organization of the surrounding space. Many promising creative ideas came from the walls of this particular institution and subsequently developed in film posters, advertising, visual propaganda. In 1926, the Decorative Institute was closed, as a result of which many of its fruitful undertakings were never realized.