Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
El Lissitzky · 1920
Why it's great
A red triangle slices into a white circle in El Lissitzky's famous poster, a symbol of the Red Army defeating the White Army in the Russian Civil War. It was made in 1919 and 1920 and mixes politics with modern abstract art.
🏛️ Part of history
The Russian Revolution (1905–1922) — A red triangle slices into a white circle in El Lissitzky's famous poster, a symbol of the Red Army defeating the White Army in the Russian Civil War.
Where to see it
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Hang it on your wall
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El Lissitzky was a Russian artist born in Pochinok in 1890. He worked as an architect, a painter and a designer, and made his famous poster of the Red Wedge in 1919. He lived in Vitebsk, Germany and Moscow, and died in Moscow in 1941.
