“On the one hand, portraits in posters are a collective image of people who lived and died during that terrible war. On the other hand, each poster, as it were, tells the personal story of a single person, through lines of poetry that store something very sacred. Perhaps someone even makes out in these portraits of their grandparents, fathers, mothers. It seems to me that the talent and skill of the artist Bankov could so emotionally bond the general and the particular - together, ”said the author of the idea, Kirill Karnovich-Valois.
The series of copyright posters of Peter Bankov was called “Four lines about the war”: these are not only expressive modern graphics, but also time-tested lines in which the tragedy and scale of the Great Patriotic War are felt the most.
The first posters in the series will be devoted to the poetry of Konstantin Simonov, a war correspondent and poet who went through the entire Great Patriotic War. Soviet soldiers and officers copied his poems by hand and sent them home, cut them out of newspapers and kept them in the breast pocket of the gymnasts. The first poster is dedicated to the famous poem "Wait for me"; the author’s introduction was written by the poet’s son, Alexei Simonov.
The lines are inscribed in the poster in the copyright font of Peter Bankov, turn into an organic part of the visual narrative. Speaking about the sources of his inspiration, Bankov recalled how he first realized what the Second World War was, in the 70s, when he lived with his grandmother. There, near Gomel, he met many of those who went through that war:
“In that world there was no particular pride for the war years, for that life. Probably because all this - war, roads, dust, death and life - ended relatively recently and people were worried about pressing problems much more than anything else. Ordinary faces of ordinary people who went through the war. Ugly. Honestly, they seemed ugly to me, but relatives at the same time. Later, these people were joined in my head by songs, music, Okudzhava, Simonov, cinema, "And the dawns here are quiet." From this, probably, this poster poem has grown. Four lines about the war. About them. And about us. ”
Earlier, the project team #Profits of Victory presented a VR dedication to the victims of the Holocaust: the film “Auschwitz Lessons” was created based on the work of Moscow schoolchildren who visited a former concentration camp in the Polish city of Auschwitz. Another series of works in virtual reality will bring together contemporary artists and children of Blockade Leningrad. Drawings 1941-1944 come to life on the project page on Facebook.
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