{"id":409,"date":"2020-12-09T17:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/?p=409"},"modified":"2020-12-09T22:41:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T22:41:41","slug":"survey-9-the-revolutionary-posters-of-soviet-brothers-georgii-and-vladimir-stenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/2020\/12\/09\/survey-9-the-revolutionary-posters-of-soviet-brothers-georgii-and-vladimir-stenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey 9: The Revolutionary Posters of Soviet Brothers Georgii and Vladimir Stenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/0H7LQEq3yXYv_1hn_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/0H7LQEq3yXYv_1hn_.jpg 600w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/0H7LQEq3yXYv_1hn_-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg working in their shared studio<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Vladimir Stenberg (1899-1982) and Georgii Stenberg  (1900-1933-he died in a motorcycle accident) were born in Soviet Russia to a Swedish father, who worked as a painter, and a Latvian mother. The Stenberg Brothers were initially active as sculptors, theatre designers,&nbsp;architects, and draftsmen; even designing women&#8217;s shoes and rail carriages. They made their biggest mark as radical poster designers during the Constructivist graphic design movement, specifically in propaganda and film posters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/b42e44b8041b28ed072120ea3969164b-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"413\" data-link=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/?attachment_id=413\" class=\"wp-image-413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/b42e44b8041b28ed072120ea3969164b-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/b42e44b8041b28ed072120ea3969164b-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/b42e44b8041b28ed072120ea3969164b-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/b42e44b8041b28ed072120ea3969164b-1020x1536.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/b42e44b8041b28ed072120ea3969164b-1360x2048.jpg 1360w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/b42e44b8041b28ed072120ea3969164b-1200x1807.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/b42e44b8041b28ed072120ea3969164b.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"994\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/H0046-L03684670.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"414\" data-link=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/?attachment_id=414\" class=\"wp-image-414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/H0046-L03684670.jpg 750w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/H0046-L03684670-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"815\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/images-w1400.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"415\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/images-w1400.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/?attachment_id=415\" class=\"wp-image-415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/images-w1400.jpg 540w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/images-w1400-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 85vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">(left to right) Assemblage Polytechnique (1920) by Vladimir Stenberg, costume design from Night and Day (1926) by Vladimir Stenberg, <em>Idol of the Public<\/em>&nbsp;(1925) by the Stenberg Brothers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to communist Russia, fine art was useless. Many artists worked around this by creating avant-garde posters. Posters and film became important tools for the state because they were able to convert illiterate citizens through government-sanctioned imagery. The Stenberg Brothers started studying at the State Free Art Workshops (SVOMAS) at the beginning of the civil war (1917), which highly informed their visuals. They founded the Society of Young Artists (OBMOKhU) with some of their comrades in 1919, which aimed to design compelling posters for the Bolshevik cause. In fact, the distribution of propaganda was considered a desirable and honourable practice in Russia at the time, and the Stenbergs excelled at this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Our primary device is montage&#8230;[but] we do not neglect Construction. Ours are eye-catching posters which, one might say, are designed to shock. We deal with the material in a free manner&#8230;disregarding actual proportions&#8230;turning figures upside-down; in short, we employ everything that can make a busy passerby stop in their tracks.<\/p><cite>Vladimir Stenberg (1928)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/189cfe6686b684b582f91217206a839e.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"418\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/189cfe6686b684b582f91217206a839e.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/?attachment_id=418\" class=\"wp-image-418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/189cfe6686b684b582f91217206a839e.jpg 960w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/189cfe6686b684b582f91217206a839e-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/189cfe6686b684b582f91217206a839e-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">The Stenberg Brother&#8217;s first film poster, for a film called The Eyes of Love (1923)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-yellow-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#b10003\"><em>A BROTHERLY BOND<\/em><br>In the book &#8220;Stenberg Brothers: Constructing A Revolution in Soviet Design&#8221; written by gallery curator and Professor of Design History and Theory, Christopher Mount, it is stated that Georgii and Vladimir Stenberg &#8220;shared from an early age an unusually strong fraternal bond.&#8221; They would work on their posters simultaneously, rushedly alternating positions around the piece until it was completed. All of their joint works featured the signature<em> 2 Stenberg 2<\/em>, supporting the idea of the collective rather than the individual, as proposed by the Bolsheviks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/19_The-Death-Loop-1929.-Offset-lithograph-full-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"427\" data-link=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/2020\/12\/09\/survey-9-the-revolutionary-posters-of-soviet-brothers-georgii-and-vladimir-stenberg\/19_the-death-loop-1929-offset-lithograph-full\/\" class=\"wp-image-427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/19_The-Death-Loop-1929.-Offset-lithograph-full-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/19_The-Death-Loop-1929.-Offset-lithograph-full-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/19_The-Death-Loop-1929.-Offset-lithograph-full-768x1165.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/19_The-Death-Loop-1929.-Offset-lithograph-full-1012x1536.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/19_The-Death-Loop-1929.-Offset-lithograph-full-1350x2048.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/19_The-Death-Loop-1929.-Offset-lithograph-full-1200x1820.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/19_The-Death-Loop-1929.-Offset-lithograph-full-scaled.jpg 1687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/images-w1400-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"428\" data-link=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/2020\/12\/09\/survey-9-the-revolutionary-posters-of-soviet-brothers-georgii-and-vladimir-stenberg\/images-w1400-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/images-w1400-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/images-w1400-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/996171682ecf9dcbfca4aa74a5949482.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"429\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/996171682ecf9dcbfca4aa74a5949482.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/2020\/12\/09\/survey-9-the-revolutionary-posters-of-soviet-brothers-georgii-and-vladimir-stenberg\/996171682ecf9dcbfca4aa74a5949482\/\" class=\"wp-image-429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/996171682ecf9dcbfca4aa74a5949482.jpg 524w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11640\/2020\/12\/996171682ecf9dcbfca4aa74a5949482-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 85vw, 524px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">(Left to right) The Death Loop (1929), The Last Flight (1929) and The Sold Appetite (1928) film posters by the Stenberg Brothers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Stenberg Brother&#8217;s posters are defined by an exaggerated use of scale, a sense of movement, and dynamic use of colour and typography. They would often base the visuals on stills from the films. Many of their peers and other artists in the field ended up imitating them due to the effectiveness of their designs. When Josef Stalin declared socialist realism as the official artistic medium, the brothers became little known and almost lost to history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information Citations:<br>https:\/\/thecharnelhouse.org\/2015\/08\/05\/the-stenberg-brothers-and-the-art-of-soviet-movie-posters\/<br>https:\/\/www.moma.org\/interactives\/exhibitions\/1997\/sternbergbrothers\/<br>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constructivism_(art)#Constructivist_graphic_design<br>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stenberg_brothers<br>https:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/post\/134238069611<br>https:\/\/www.moma.org\/documents\/moma_catalogue_250_300063174.pdf<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Stenberg (1899-1982) and Georgii Stenberg (1900-1933-he died in a motorcycle accident) were born in Soviet Russia to a Swedish father, who worked as a painter, and a Latvian mother. The Stenberg Brothers were initially active as sculptors, theatre designers,&nbsp;architects, and draftsmen; even designing women&#8217;s shoes and rail carriages. They made their biggest mark as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/2020\/12\/09\/survey-9-the-revolutionary-posters-of-soviet-brothers-georgii-and-vladimir-stenberg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Survey 9: The Revolutionary Posters of Soviet Brothers Georgii and Vladimir Stenberg&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ides141","tag-art-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}