Szosty lipca (The Sixth of July) (Poster for the film directed by Yuli Karasik)
Maciej Zbikowski
Polish, born 1935
1968
A lithograph film poster that condenses a Soviet historical‑revolutionary movie into a single bold symbol—five advancing black silhouettes on a red field—designed to advertise and dramatize Szósty lipca (The Sixth of July).
The vivid red background hits first, then a compact group of hat‑and‑beard clad figures, rendered like sharp stencils, seems to stride out of the picture, their pale faces and a lone sheet of paper punctuating the composition.
Rooted in the mid‑20th‑century Eastern European poster tradition, it shows how designers translated political and cinematic subjects into spare, high‑contrast modernist graphics that read like public propaganda and influenced visual communication for mass audiences.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
32 1/2 x 22 5/8" (82.6 x 57.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the designer
Accession
1513.2000
Palette
Art Terms
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