Video: Soviet pin-up
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Pin-up is an American art of a wall poster with a half-naked girl on it, which appeared in the middle of the twentieth century and is popular today. But even now, pin-up pictures are drawn in the aesthetics of those years when it first appeared. And the artist Valery Barykin draws pin-up posters on the Soviet theme. It turns out a kind of eclecticism. After all, there was no sex in the Soviet Union. And, therefore, there was no sexuality.
But Valery Barykin claims that there was sexuality, and what a sexuality! And this is what his work is devoted to. Pin-up posters of this artist are made with scenes from classic Soviet social posters. They urge people to do better, to defend their rights, to respect labor, to discipline and self-control. But all this is done in the style of American posters of the mid-twentieth century.
Even on posters with such seemingly completely nonsexual titles as “Respect the work of cleaning ladies”, “Do not abuse alcoholic beverages”, “The first woman-cosmonaut”, “Housing and communal services worker! You give the quality of service on your site.”Valery Barykin finds a place for sexuality. All of them depict sexy beauties with outstanding forms. And rightly so! After all, this way the information is better remembered, because it is associated with a certain picture and feelings.
In addition to social posters in the pin-up style, Valery Barykin also draws pictures in the style of socialist realism - the main artistic method in the art of the USSR. Again, with a slight element of eroticism. As an example, we can mention the series of his paintings "Soon Moscow", showing people arriving in the capital of the Soviet Union.
And in the wake of nostalgia for the Soviet Union, Valery Barykin's poster paintings are very popular and in demand. Of course, after all, everyone still wants to think that there was sex in the Union, no matter what all sorts of sexual counterrevolutionaries might assert.
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