class-struggle-anarchism:commissarchrisman:thesovietbroadcast:Lenin’s Speech by E. Antonov ☭Go
class-struggle-anarchism:commissarchrisman:thesovietbroadcast:Lenin’s Speech by E. Antonov ☭Got this as my fb cover photo now :) I’m really enamoured with it, I just love how human (and much more gender balanced) the crowd looks compared to usual crowds of baying revolutionaries you get in Socialist Realist depictions I find it interesting how Lenin is always leaning forward in depictions of him, the dynamic angle, always making eye contact and mid-speech …. compare to later paintings featuring Stalin, where he is generally straight as a post, silent and staring out, statesmanlike, into the distance. They’re like iconographic symbols of the stage of socialism they’re supposed to represent. -- source link
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