Posters: Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) is an exhibition which gathers together a selection of wartime posters from the Pablo Iglesias Foundation Collection, a collection built on right from its very beginnings, currently in excess of some 2000 reproductions. This selection represents an outstanding, and extremely valuable, excerpt of the great variety of themes, authors, institutions and publishing houses present in the collection. It also serves as a powerful testimony of the Republican propaganda poster campaign, which followed in the footsteps of the First World War practice of propaganda poster-making, increasing the effectiveness of the poster's message, and appealing to the imagination, by expanding on the traditional motifs, such as enlisting and political symbols, to include education, hygiene, and warnings of the dangers abound in wartime situations. Figures such as Renal, Bardasano, Amster, Oliver, Melendreras, Sim, Pedrero, Babiano, Ballester, and Garay, to name but a few, combine innovative expressive resources, techniques such as collage and photomontages, with large doses of talent, rupturist use of colour, shapes, and typography, to produce enormously powerful and varied graphic works of art. This exhibition is in the Instituto Cervantes and runs until 29th August.
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