Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
A Civil War poster made only of geometric shapes: Suprematism turned to propaganda
- Author
- El Lissitzky
- Style
- Russian avant-garde — Dropping depiction for pure form, colour and invented language: art as a new reality of its own
- Century
- 20th century
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