Mount, Worker
and Peasant! Poster. 1920. National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU), Kyiv. State Russian
Library, Moscow.
Among the
placards of the time of the civil war in Russia and Ukraine which gained worldwide fame as
prominent works of art, there are several not-singed ones which were printed in Kyiv in
1920. These placards, Join the Red Cavalry and Mount, Worker and Peasant! were exhibited, in
particular, at such grandiose exhibitions as Paris-Moscow
and Moscow-Paris as anonymous ones. Working
in the archives, I found the name of the painter – Boris Sylkin. I also managed to
identify the names of the authors of some other placard masterpieces – A.Petritsky, I.Rabinovich, B.Kosarev, O.Marenkov – who worked in a cubist/futuristic and secession
manners.
