GUSTAV KLUTSIS (1895-1938) [LONG LIVE THE MULTIMILLION - MEMBER LENINIST KOMSOMOL.] 1932. 59x41 1/4 inches, 150x104 3/4 cm. Ogiz-Izogiz, Moscow. Condition B: restored losses, repaired tears, creases, abrasions and restoration in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds and seam. Two-sheets. Framed. Klutsis himself explained that "new social challenges, the class struggle, construction projects, socialist colossi - all required a new approach to design, at once objective and documentary. A new art was needed, armed by technology and chemistry, an art that stood side by side with socialist industry, a new, militant art, which could organize the will of the masses and direct the activities of the working class along planned lines (the five-year plans)" (Clash of Ideologies p. 100). One of Klutsis' favorite recurring motifs, to convey an irresistible impression of strength and movement, was a row of three or four people marching side-by-side, carrying their tools, weapons or flags. Often Klutsis and his wife Valentina Kulagina used photographs of themselves in marching poses as preparatory studies for these posters. Klutsis / Strasbourg p. 113.
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