Recently, the news of the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine has aroused continuous attention from all over the world, and this article does not talk about war, let's take a look at the design of the fighting nation. Just ask, do you serve?
Soviet design
"Sometimes I always feel that those soldiers, who have not returned, from the bloody battlefield, they are not buried in our land, they have become white cranes flying." 」
In 2020, a statue of a soldier commemorating the Battle of Lezhev in Russia swept across Weibo.
Sculptor Andrey Korobtsov
and architect Konstantin Fomin,
Co-designed this piece,
The cost is donated by the public.
From the concept map in May 2018 to the final completion in August 2020.
Between heaven and earth stands a great warrior,
His body has been reduced to ashes by the fire,
But turn all kinds of tenderness into a white crane to remember victory,
Never waver the warm determination to defend the family and defend the country.
This mix of hardcore and gentle style,
Let netizens have praised:
It turns out that Russian design has been underestimated,
On design, I only serve Russia!
To discuss Russian design and aesthetics,
We have to go back to the Soviet period.
And when it comes to Soviet design,
The first thing that comes to mind,
It must be the AK-47, the tank cannon,
After all, it is a "fighting nation"!
In fact, soviet design
There are also many soft and cute images that have long been deeply rooted in people's hearts.
For example, this tumbler doll with a fat face
The cute Misha bear
There are also Soviet-designed logos,
Designed and manufactured by the Red October Chocolate Factory from the 1960s to the 1970s,
A big-headed doll full of realism style.
In daily life,
Extending to the dial pad telephone of ordinary people's homes,
Is the tear of the times,
It is a sign of the times again.
Maybe only a few people know about it now
It was designed by the Soviet Union.
Practical and eco-friendly woven tote bags and metal mesh pockets,
In the past two years, the retro style is making a comeback.
The first to design them were Soviet designers.
Despite the 80s of the former Soviet Union
The use of words like "designer" is not allowed
Call them "art engineers."
Soviet design,
It is closely related to the development of politics.
The best embodiment of this,
It is a magical Soviet architecture.
Editor-in-chief of the international edition of the famous French magazine "CitizenK"
Photographer Fre de ric Chaubin,
He has photographed a series of buildings with the most "futuristic" feeling in Russia.
Almost all of them were completed during the Soviet era.
During the Cold War and the Struggle for Hegemony,
The Soviet Union vowed to be the first in the world with a warm heart,
So what does the first look like?
Of course it is higher, bigger, more Divine,
Thus was born these buildings that broke through the human imagination...
The Soviet people at that time were very optimistic and positive,
Imagine and build one
The city of the future where technology and military fly together.
Absolute tallness, an absolute sense of power,
Architecturally presented,
It is an expectation of the times.
Although these strangely shaped buildings,
By now most of them have been deprecated,
But they are still witnesses of that era,
It also allowed Soviet design to form a unique aesthetic system.
Moscow artist Daniela Tkachenko,
In honor of the abandoned Soviet military base,
Photograph a group of abandoned buildings full of sci-fi and industrial feel.
They will sleep forever in the snow,
Silently tells the thrill of the past.
As if as long as these buildings are still there,
Powerful Soviet military alliance
Yoshimitsu Kataba before the collapse,
It will not be forgotten.
Solemn, silent, tall buildings,
It's a realistic version of Red Alert.
It's like a secret base in a dream.
Not all Soviet period buildings,
all abandoned with disintegration,
The bus stop is one of the surviving architectural wonders.
Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig,
Riding tens of thousands of miles,
Photograph a bus stop built during the Soviet period.
In the chaotic era of power change,
Art grows savagely.
The bus stop is there
One of the experimental objects of the avant-garde art experiment at that time.
They are disorganized and costless.
Imagination is the best nourishment for art.
Christopher Herwig, 2015
Take this set of photos
Published as a photo album "Soviet Bus Stops",
The response was overwhelming and a resounding success.
After Christopher was inspired,
Back in Russia, looking for more bus stops,
A second album was published in 2017.
In these bus stops,
There is no shortage of colorful designs,
In line with the usual full and warm design style at that time,
And it seems very happy and lively.
Nowadays, when it comes to the art of design,
Almost all that is praised and imitated is Western European design,
Russian very stylized Soviet aesthetics,
It seems to be gradually forgotten with history.
Good design,
It has always been the cultural wealth of all mankind.
All we can do,
Maybe it's just attention, appreciation,
Then do not forget.
Author: RORO
Resources:
《esigned in the USSR》
Modern Soviet Architecture during the Cold War
The Age of Soviet Design 1950-1989: Russians will also be curious about the memory of the times