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GROWTH WINDOWS
V. Kozlinsky • Poster, 1920-th
, 29×21 cm
Description of the artwork «GROWTH WINDOWS»
Edition of the State Russian Museum 1968 - linocut on the original of 1920 on paper authentic at that time.
"The windows of the satire GROWTH (Russian Telegraph Agency)." In 1919, the artist Cheremnykh proposed creating a poster magazine with satirical drawings on topical political topics and hanging sheets in the windows of empty shops. He was the author of the first drawing, which appeared in the center of Moscow, in the window of an empty confectionery. This work has not been preserved to this day, but it is known that it was dedicated to the attack of Anton Denikin on Moscow and the defeat of the Communists in Hungary. Soon the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky came to the “GROWTH Windows”, who not only wrote texts for posters, but also painted some of the “Windows”.
The first posters were issued in a single copy once a week and painted by hand, they looked like an enlarged page of the magazine. Then they began to propagate using stencils, the number reached 300 copies.
Posters were sent to 47 cities of the Soviet Union, they were hung out in shops, train stations, fences and houses. Large and vibrant, with satirical cartoons and witty poems, the Windows were as quick as newspapers, and as intelligible as posters.
"The windows of the satire GROWTH (Russian Telegraph Agency)." In 1919, the artist Cheremnykh proposed creating a poster magazine with satirical drawings on topical political topics and hanging sheets in the windows of empty shops. He was the author of the first drawing, which appeared in the center of Moscow, in the window of an empty confectionery. This work has not been preserved to this day, but it is known that it was dedicated to the attack of Anton Denikin on Moscow and the defeat of the Communists in Hungary. Soon the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky came to the “GROWTH Windows”, who not only wrote texts for posters, but also painted some of the “Windows”.
The first posters were issued in a single copy once a week and painted by hand, they looked like an enlarged page of the magazine. Then they began to propagate using stencils, the number reached 300 copies.
Posters were sent to 47 cities of the Soviet Union, they were hung out in shops, train stations, fences and houses. Large and vibrant, with satirical cartoons and witty poems, the Windows were as quick as newspapers, and as intelligible as posters.
