The Pipe of the Communard

ca. 1930

Not on view

Anatoly Belsky was a graphic and stage designer who studied at the Stroganov Industrial Art School in Moscow. Starting in the second half of the 1920s, he designed film posters and became one of the leading artists in the field. One of the great innovations in Soviet filmmaking during the revolutionary period was the concept of montage, a film technique that influenced the design of movie posters like Belsky’s The Pipe of the Communard. The artist used skewed perspectives and contrasting scales to depict the actors—one of them features larger-than-life—and vivid blue and red colors to enhance the dynamic composition.

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Provenance

Title: The Pipe of the Communard
Artist: Anatoly Pavlovich Belsky (Russian, Moscow 1896–1970 Moscow)
Date: ca. 1930
Medium: Ink, cut and pasted papers, gouache and conté crayon on paper
Dimensions: 38 7/16 × 25 13/16 in. (97.7 × 65.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
Object Number: 2021.54.4
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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