Great Art That Just Happened to Be Propaganda
 

What are some state funded films/art pieces/songs/etc. that are good enough to get brainwashed by?

Battleship Potemkin is probably the most obvious example. Any film nerd will tell you that it established a lot of editing techniques like the montage and cause and effect, but it was a soviet revolutionary film made to demonized the government.

Pollock and Rothko were also funded by the funded by the CIA to exemplify the free will of Americans and scare the soviets or some ****.

I also think that the American national anthem is a good song.

Any other examples?

War propaganda in the form of poster art has always fascinated me, especially the WWI & WWII era ones. Interesting examples can be found from many of the nations involved. Here are a few from the U.S. during WWI...

And a few from the U.S. during WWII...

I like to send a pic of this Russian prohibition propaganda poster to people on their 21st birthday.

http://www.sloshspot.com/wp-content/...ttle-Snake.png

Salvador Dali's "Soldier, Take Warning"

https://scontent.fsan1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...19&oe=593E2EBF

The German National Anthem has been my fav anthem ever since I found out my military school's song ripped it off and just changed the lyrics. I learned the German version by heart just so I could sing it during school assemblies when they forced us to sing the school song. It's not an actual Nazi song, as it was adopted during the German Empire in the 1800's (I believe) but the first two verses were dropped after WWII cause they're nationalist as ****. The first verse literally demarcates Germany's territorial boundaries, presumably without consulting any of the countries that might have taken issue with these proclamations. The music was also written by Joseph Haydn for what it's worth.

You simply have not lived until you've sung, "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles! Uber Alles in Der Welt!" at the top of your lungs.

This is true.

What the hell is going on there? Looks like he's wrestling with an octopus for possession of a beer!
That is ****ing amazing!

While masturbating.

Oh, I love this thread. Conveniently, I found this excellent curated list sitting in my bookmarks: https://www.brainpickings.org/index....d-art-posters/

And this Flickr account, too is a treasure trove for Soviet art, propaganda and miscellany: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/se...57594117941491

Being a Russian, I guess his dick is powerful enough to be wanked without the bothering of opening his belt, huh? Maybe he has telekinetic powers?

And of course it cums vodka.

Dali aside all i see is a bunch of propaganda that happened to be great art (i guess). I thought this thread was for great art that unintentionally came off as propaganda.

I've seen some old 1970s horror film posters from Thailand that looked vaguely like propaganda. (There really ought to be a rare film poster thread; there are some delightfully strange and beautiful ones)

In Russia, cock wank you! :laughing:
Well, you know what to do...

Why not start a journal?

It's supposed to be a snake and there's drunkenness/alcoholism written on it.
The word written above says 'We will overcome it'.

Not "We will cum over it"? :laughing:

I was just going to say start a thread, but hell, if it pisses Ki off, by all means! :D

I'm a fan of Polish propaganda posters. Some of you probably know the "polish poster style", many portals like cracked.com posted collections of bizarre polish movie posters, but this is something else.
The tradition didn't star then, but I especially like ww2 posters like:
https://polishforums.com/archives/20...553506_1_o.jpg
(wara is an anachronism and it basically means "I won't let you (enter, or do anything else)"
http://www.postershoplive.com/assets.../MP00001-2.jpg
"England, this is your doing"
http://68.media.tumblr.com/44020df17...tuz0o4_500.jpg
"To Arms! In the ranks of the home army"

And then there is the iron curtain period, when soviet realism was the only way to go, it gave us things like:
http://nicalbonic.blox.pl/resource/11.jpg
"College students! We're working for you and waiting for you"
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...c259cafbfb.jpg
"Youth! Come forth and join the fight for a happy socialist countryside"
Yes, that's the rhetoric or language they used, it was a part indoctrination, this notion that socialism can be injected through language
And my personal favorite
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q25NkVUFrB...600/bimber.jpg
"Moonshine! It will make you blind"
Just a small sample.

If that last one was a book cover I'd read it.

It's one of many (seriously, many) attempts of the socialist government to fight the plague of alcoholism. Too bad none of them realized the reality they created made people drink, maybe they'd look for a more constructive solution ;) I don't know if it was a common problem in every Warsaw pact country, but it seems at least Russia had it too, and I think it still has.
http://m.ocdn.eu/_m/adebf73eb327577d...7e7a,62,37.jpg

That's what I call "album cover material"...

http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/...psnasllwkn.jpg

Bout to join an MLP forum just so I can post this.

Is he refusing the wine or about to turn it into water, with the power of Stalin? :laughing:
What's MLP?

You hoof got to be kidding me.

Huh. Be like that, then. :finger:

Can you imagine that there was actually a time when it was conceivable that Americans would be willing to ration?

Some more WW1 propaganda posters (since my old post no longer displays the images)...