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Red Army Parade is a wordless picture book. It is colorful and festive, filled with light, mostly line-based illustrations that feel highly dynamic and rhythmic. Deyneka drew with colored strokes — red and gray, black and yellow — freely moving away from naturalistic color and often abandoning conventional perspective. Cavalry […]
Aleksandr Deyneka’s festive colors could also give way, even in children’s books, to the severity of everyday labor. What gives these books their energy is Deyneka’s admiration for difficult physical work. It is no coincidence that the hero of two of his books from 1930 became the electrician: a figure […]
Alexander Deyneka’s In the Clouds was first published in 1930 and later reissued several times. Dedicated entirely to aviation, the book presents readers with a kind of visual catalogue of flying machines and aeronautical equipment, from parachutes to military aircraft. There is almost no text apart from short captions such […]
Aleksandr Deyneka (1899–1969) was a Russian painter, muralist, graphic artist, and teacher. He was born in Kursk into the family of a railway worker. In 1917 he graduated from the Kharkiv Art School; afterwards he designed theatrical productions, propaganda trains, and worked as a photographer. From 1919 to 1920 he […]