#Socialist Art

[blessedscavengers]

"What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.”

quote by Rose Schneiderman 1912

terfs fuck off

made in 2022

[enbycrip]

Created by Nathan Nun Art

[lil-tachyon]

I'm sooooo obsessed with your style! who are some of your inspirations?

I've gotten this question a few times and I try not to repeat myself, so if you want to see some of my previous answers, here's a link.

Some people/things that are influencing me right now, in no particular order:

@ollyneanderthal is my current favorite creature designer. Conveys so much with the minimum amount of detail + their silhouettes are always so distinctive:

@olliemnjones is my current favorite painter. Incredible blend of detailed rendering with highly exaggerated character proportions and compositions:

Sheilah Beckett is an illustrator who I somehow only discovered this year but who is fast becoming one of my primary influences:

Been really into band logos and rock/punk/metal iconography lately. Here are some favorites:

(Also, can't believe I didn't realize The Cars had such a sick logo until recently. Looks like it belongs to an early thrash / NWOBHM band)

In general I've been really enamored of a lot of 20th century art from socialist / Eastern Bloc countries, especially poster designs. Was never exposed to any of this growing up (I'm from the US of A) so it's all new to me. Too broad a topic to discuss in detail (actually if anybody could give me book recommendations on socialist art, I'd really appreciate it) but here are some random favorites I've saved:

In particular I'd like to highlight the work of René Mederos:

Hope you enjoy! And thanks for the question!

[benkaden]

Ansichtskarte

MERSEBURG Lenin-Monument am Gotthardteich

Köthen: Heldge-Verlag KG 437 Köthen (P 1/72 IV-14-45 06 08 11 120)

Foto: [Erich] Kühn

1972

[damnesdelamer]

(Available from Jacquesi97 on Redbubble)

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On October 1st, 1949, after nearly three decades of brutal civil war against the country's bourgeois and ultraconservative forces (who still occupy Taiwan) and nearly two decades of fighting against the Japanese invasion and the European and US colonial forces, the Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China. China has experienced many struggles since then, but it is undeniable that there have been 75 years of liberation. A country that was once feudal, backward, prey to famine and illiteracy, and totally colonized by the West through violence, unequal treaties and the opium forced on it, today is the world's second largest economy, a leader in scientific research and renewable energy, all with one of the highest life expectancies in the world, and has managed to abolish poverty for its population of over a billion people. Great inequalities and problems remain in Chinese development, but the Chinese people, developing Mao's communist innovations, have written history like few others in the world, and will continue to write it. Because it is the people in struggle who write history.

[chromatica000]

With The Blood of The Martyrs Our Flag is Red

[angergrls]

20th century poster art from china

[meteokcu]

BURSA'DA ZAMAN - 1

Başım göğüslerinin arasında uyuduğum ilk gençlik yıllarım...

[mioritic]

Jaroslav Horyna

Four prints from the “Ohne” (“Fire”) series, 1974

“Sľub”, “Povstanie”, “Vďaka”, and “Ústup”

Šarišská galéria, Prešov, Slovakia

[renest]

Die Spreewald-Romantik / 11.05.2024

[visual-sandwich]

Isaak Brodsky - Lenin in Smolny - 1930

[lil-tachyon]

Noticed that you take socialist banners as inspiration on your art and that made me curious about your political views, Are you a socialist or Marxist? Os just kinda left leaning?

I really enjoy your blog btw

I’m glad you’re into what I do! I appreciate the very direct question so I’ll try to give a very direct answer.

I would consider myself an anarcho-communist. At least, that’s the kind of society I’d like to live in. I genuinely believe the abolition of private property, states, and hierarchies is a real (if very difficult) possibility and is in the best interest of the vast majority of people. That said, I’m an anticapitalist and a socialist first and I’m broadly (if critically) supportive of most movements that have had any success fending off capital. I’m not so naïve that I ignore the real historical failures of anarchism to create alternatives to capitalism on the scale of the USSR,PRC, Cuba, etc.

My politics are still evolving and I only really became radicalized in the last couple years. But anarchism still makes the most sense to me.

That’s what I’ll say for now. I try to be transparent about the things I believe but also I’m literally a guy who draws robots on the internet. Nobody who follows this blog needs me to lecture them on politics lol. If anybody reading this wants more detail about my views you can send me an ask but depending on the question I may not answer it publicly. An email (tachyonart@gmail.com) may be better.

To keep this somewhat relevant to what I normally post about, here’s the New Jersey ancom flag I drew a little while back:

And some articles about socialist experiments in the Garden State:

-“The Anarchists Who Took the Commuter Train” about the Stelton Colony in what is now Piscataway.

-“Uncle Sam’s House: Anarchy in Piscataway” same topic but more focused specifically on the Goldman House (no, not that Goldman although I believe she visited the colony at some point), one of the last-standing and most distinctive structures from the Stelton Colony. Plus I’ll take any opportunity to plug Weird NJ.

-“Jersey Roots: Looking for Utopia in Colt’s Neck” on the Fourierest North American Phalanx Community.

-“All About the Utopia That Was Once in Perth Amboy, NJ” about the Raritan Bay Union, founded by dissatisfied former members of the North American Phalanx.

Also if anybody has the original newspaper article that talks about Peter Kropotkin visiting Jersey City, please send it my way. I’ve seen it referenced in a few places but I can’t track it down.

Peace,

Logan

[naphthaflash]

The Mechanic, 1920.

Fernand Léger

[workersolidarity]

"Comrade Lenin cleanses the world of evil spirits"

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