Design and Art Style minus government propoganda.

Submitted by shaharazade on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 6:00am

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I have had it with this selection. I just don't give a shit about who gets selected to become the latest greatest representative of the free world. Oh Yeah! Yahoo! for Bernie even though you can't vote for the Brooklyn Deli Guy due to clerical errors or slips ups in your voter registration or where and when you last voted and how you defined yourself.

My OT is inspired from a comment from Marylin (Agathina) in one of the dreaded meta essays where she said lets have more art and design. So here you go some art and design that is from my book of good street, fine art that is outside the gates of Eden.

Take it or leave it but here's my short sweet biased essay on street, political, outside graphic and 'fine ' art. To me it's all fine. I used to sell my art history notebook for a good price in college so I'm no dummy about this subject... however somewhere we all lost it.

I start my story in Russia 1914?-Stalin I learned this story in the 1980's when a traveling art show of this school of Russian graphic art came to LA and I laid my Bauhaus loving eyes on it.

Russian Constructivism.

Constructivism is an art movement which originated in Russia in the 1920’s. It rejected art as an autonomous idea, but favored it as a social one. Constructivists supported the Bolshevik government. They were involved in public life. Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), the Russian poet, playwright and artist declared: “the streets are our brushes, the squares our palettes” Constructivists not only employed the plastic arts as their means of expression, but expanded to the areas of industry, graphic design and the performing arts.... They employed angular and geometric shapes in their composition. Constructivism influenced other art movements of the twentieth century, such as Bauhaus and De Stijl.

Since my topic here is graphic visual art and so called fine art art that springs forth in times of turmoil and oppression these are my examples of the early pre Stalin Russian commie people's fine and not so fine art. My picks of art are not political but my personal picks as far as art goes. So enjoy it as art for art sake. money for god sake. Got no idea who this artist is but I like it.

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I love El Lissitzky. He's 's not your literal propagandist but a fine abstract artist dude...
Here's a poster named 'Beat the Whites with the Red Edge' The whites being the Russian's who were no good at all.

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'Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko 1891 – December 3, 1956) was a Russian artist, sculptor, and photographer.
Rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution of 1917

Skipping over 99 years of graphic political art we come to Shepard Fairey of the Hope Obama poster fame. We move beyond his iconic Hope poster as he has moved on, thank god. Here is one of his 'Obey' pieces created after he saw what a bait and switch Obama was. He used Rodchencko's eye ball poster for this poster.

To be continued in another OT which will take up after the Russians and move into past and contemporary poster, aerosol and fine artiste's.

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Submitted by shaharazade on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 11:16am

Art for arts sake

This is part 1 of the story. I meant to write the story that would lead from this part to Zap, graffitti, OWS, and now. I quickly realized it that it's too long a tale for one OT.

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More blue

Learn to obey...

Underground

I see you..

Submitted by riverlover on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 4:00am

That Style appeals to my design sense, as well.

It recalls the lines and curves of Kandinsky, also Russian, and then the Bauhaus, and Le Corbusier.. Have you seen Villa Savoie? Lines and curves. Very high symbolism. Now surrounded by expanding Paris.

Now I am tumbling through recall. La charette as a typeface, also Corbu, carried forward by artists like Robert Indiana, in his iconic LOVE design (I have a gallery poster of that, 1966). FLWright went about it another way, lovely architecture like FallingWater (terrible engineering from an engineer by education) and also beautiful but dysfunctional furniture.

I osmosed architecture from my late husband. Did the tours, have a designed home with a Name, Dogwoods. The dogwoods on the surrounding "estate" went extinct locally after the build, victims of dogwood anthracnose. And now go the ash trees, by the emerald Ash Borer. Ramble, ramble.

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Submitted by stevej on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 7:10am

More art and design always!

The British group of musicians and comedians who made up Red Wedge took their name from the Beat the Whites With the Red Edge poster.

The group only existed for five years between 1985 and 1990 but made quite an impact and had some of the UK's best known artists as active members.

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Submitted by shaharazade on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 12:06pm

Thanks stevej

I didn't know about The Red Wedge. What a great group of musicians...

Here's Elvis playing with them

Submitted by stevej on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 2:47pm

It was a big deal at the time

to be honest I didn't know that until I saw the poster (which I've seen before many times) and wondered this time for some reason, if their was a connection. Sure enough, there was.

Also very much into constructivism and fascinated by its connection with futurism (which of course, has some very dubious violence and fascism connections).

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Submitted by Lookout on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 8:01am

Bernie art

I've been collecting Bernie art as we go along (including over 300 songs...most of which are pretty bad, but some are quite good) But today's theme seems to be visual poster art. Here's some you may not have seen. Art is powerful. I think it touches us in ways beyond words. I hope y'all don't mind all my picture posting, and hope you enjoy these few examples of Bernie art. Interesting how the hair and glasses are a visual theme.

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Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 8:40am

When you are only beating Louisiana,

something is very wrong.

(any bolding is mine)

New York Had the Second-Lowest Voter Turnout So Far This Election Season

By Ari Berman

I voted without problems yesterday, but many other New Yorkers weren’t as lucky.

The Kings County Board of Elections purged 126,000 registered Democrats from the voting rolls in Brooklyn, prompting an outcry from Mayor Bill de Blasio and an audit from Comptroller Scott Stringer. “It has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that the voting lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors, including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting lists,” de Blasio said. “The perception that numerous voters may have been disenfranchised undermines the integrity of the entire electoral process and must be fixed.”

Polling places didn’t open on time, voting machines malfunctioned, and voters showed up to find their names weren’t on the rolls. Some voters had their party affiliations mysteriously switched from Democratic or Republican to independent or non-affiliated and couldn’t vote in the closed primaries. And 3 million New Yorkers, 27 percent of the electorate, didn’t get to vote because they weren’t registered with the Democratic or Republican parties, and the deadline to change party affiliation was an absurd 193 days before the April 19 primary, as I reported on Monday.

As a result, only 19.7 percent of eligible New Yorkers cast a ballot, the second-lowest voter turnout among primary states after Louisiana, according to elections expert Michael McDonald. There were over 900 calls from frustrated voters to the Election Protection Coalition, more than in any other primary state.

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Submitted by Citizen Of Earth on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 9:49am

Gee Purge All The Voters, Then Low Turnout

"You know that Something is happening but I don't know what it is, do you Mr Jones." Ballad of a Thin Man, Bob Dylan

In totally related news,
Hillary Clinton Delegate Will Oversee New York Primary Audit
http://usuncut.com/politics/new-york-audit-clinton-delegate/
"Scott Stringer, the New York City comptroller who ordered the audit of the New York City Board of Elections, is on the record as a Hillary Clinton delegate."

No one could have seen that one coming. Hahahha.
The Taint just keeps following Hellery.

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Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 10:57am

AAarrrrrgggggg!!!! $%^^#$^$^%$#%!!!

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Submitted by dkmich on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 8:51am

For all of the self-flagellating

must vote Hillary people and Nader bashers. Great article on #BernieOrBust, Nader, and the manipulation of voters.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/04/20/when-they-come-our-vote

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Submitted by dkmich on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 10:52am

More misdirection..somebody call the UN.

[video:http://usanewsflash.com/just-video-released-exposing-hillary-clinton-vot... width:300 height:300][video:

BALLOT CONFUSION IN BROOKLYN from JFOX on Vimeo.

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So the embed didn't work. Let's try this. Nope, not the url either. Here is the link.

http://usanewsflash.com/just-video-released-exposing-hillary-clinton-vot...

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Submitted by detroitmechworks on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 8:53am

Lenin had enough brains to know free artists...

do better work than artists in chains.

Hence why he funded the Soviet film industry for so many years. They came up with some of the most unique techniques that we still see in film today. They really perfected the "Message" film, and the manipulation of emotions on a visual/audio front.

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Submitted by hecate on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 10:29am

constructivism

was wonderful. Then the artists went into exile, the gulag, or silence. Because Stalin & Co. determined everyone should produce paintings of tractors.

What people forget is that there actually was idealism at the beginning of the Revolution. Starvation and civil war aside, Moscow was the most exciting place in the world to be. When Mayakovsky said, "Let us make the squares our palettes, the streets our brushes," he meant it. Every wall was a painting. There were painted trains, boats, airplanes, balloons. Wallpaper and dinner plates and gum wrappers were all created by artists who genuinely thought they were making a new world. They all believed anything was possible.

Lenin's tomb is a Constructivist design inspired by Malevich. It's a red square on Red Square. There's more to it than just Lenin laid out like a smoked herring. Art was everywhere in those days. Tatlin designed a revolving skyscraper taller than the Empire State Building. Popova drew high fashions for peasants. The artists of Moscow were going to paint the trees of the Kremlin red. Lenin did object to that, but people thought that anything was possible. Those were days of hope, days of fantasy.

Malevich said in 1918 that "footballs of entangled centuries would burn out in the sparks of bubbling light waves."

We live in the archeological ruins of that new world that never was. If we knew where to dig, who knows what we would find?

Submitted by hecate on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 10:12am

malevich,

in hope:

Malevich, when he knew the "revolution," had failed:

He was buried beneath his Black Square. Of which he had said, "It is from zero, in zero, that the true movement of being begins."

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Today,

"The painting looks terrible: crackled, scuffed, and discolored, as if it had spent the past eighty-eight years patching a broken window. In fact, it passed most of that time deep in the Soviet archives, classed among the lowliest of the state's treasures. Malevich, like other members of the Revolutionary-era Russian avant-garde, was thrown into oblivion under Stalin. The axe fell on him in 1930. Accused of 'formalism', he was interrogated and jailed for two months."

Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 11:34am

Naomi Klein responds to Leap critics

The Leap: Time for a reality check
By Naomi Klein | April 14, 2016

Well, the Leap is certainly in the news. Many articles have been filled with errors and misrepresentations, which isn't surprising. It makes perfect sense that right-leaning publications and competing political parties would seek to bury the NDP at a time when it is engaged in a process of open soul-searching. We should expect more, however, from commentators on the left.

One article from David J. Climenhaga, an important progressive analyst on Alberta politics, echoes much of the criticism heard in recent days from friends in that province. Because of this, I have decided to respond, point by point, to his attack on the Leap. While Climenhaga's piece does not contain a single quote from our document, I am leaving most of the text of his article in my response below.

My responses follow each part of the quoted text, below.

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Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 12:15pm

Prince has died

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/death-under-investigation-at-princes-rec...

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Submitted by Citizen Of Earth on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 12:32pm

More Trump verbal diarrhea

Trump: Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill is ‘pure political correctness’
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/trump-putting-harriet-tubman-on-the-20-b...

The racist SOB just can't keep his pie hole shut.
Quick where are all the Trump apologists that keep trying to convince me that his really a nice guy. Hahahha.

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Submitted by hecate on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 12:44pm

says The Hairball:

"I would love to leave Andrew Jackson."

Jackson, he added, "represented somebody that really was very important to this country."

Of course The Hairball would cleave closely to Jackson. For Jackson was notorious for hurting and killing brown people. Just as The Hairball vows to do.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 2:40pm

Thanks, stuff that I'm not remotely familiar with.

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Submitted by mimi on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 3:25pm

Good Morning, shaharazade,

all I remember is having had a book with poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky when I was seventeen (in German). I don't think I understood him well, but sensed something special in his poems. I wonder if I have that book still in my boxes.

Unfortunately reading through your OT, I just watched the video "Learn to Obey". I have difficulties to watch it. I am too old to be fascinated (even if it is artistically well done) by cruelty in humans. My tendency is to not wanting to look at torture scenes anymore, even not artistic ones. Rather want to block all of it out of my view.

So, did Majakowski (that's German spelling of his name) killed himself or was he killed?
Vladimir Mayakovsky:

n 1919, he published Collected Works 1909-1919, which further established his reputation. Mayakovsky’s popularity granted him unusual freedoms, relative to other Soviets. Specifically, he travelled freely, throughout the Soviet Union, as well as to Latvia, Britain, Germany, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. In 1925, he published My Discovery of America.

Among the poet’s best-known longer poems are Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1924), a eulogy to the Soviet leader; and All Right! (1927). Around this time, Mayakovsky also wrote two satirical plays: The Bedbug (1928) and The Bathhouse (1929).

Mayakovsky had been working on the long poem With Full Voice since 1929, when on April 14, 1930, he allegedly shot himself directly in the heart. Ten days later, the officer investigating the poet’s suicide was himself killed, fueling speculation about the nature of Mayakovsky’s death.

Hmm, might be fun to read his book "My discovery of America".