Socialist Realist Portraitureさんのイラストまとめ

Left and right panels: An exhausted sharecropping couple and coal miners on strike. In Joe Jones' words: “I’m not interested in painting pretty pictures to match pink and blue walls. I want to paint things that knock holes in walls”.

Painter, lithographer, muralist, and member of the CPUSA Joe Jones (1909-1963). We Demand, 1934. Oil on composition board, 122×91cm. Butler Institute of American Art, OH. The strikers call for the implementation of Congress Act HR 75, giving workers better equipment and safety.

Stalingrad, 1943, colour ink on cardboard; Goebbels the War Painter, 1943, India ink and collage; To be or not to be? 1943, India ink, watercolour, collage on cardboard. Russian Campain, 1942, red and brown India ink, collage on paper. The National Gallery in Prague via MoMA.

The American League Against War and Fascism was an initiative of the CPUSA, but its membership included members of other left-wing groups, trade unions, and African American civic organizations. It published a monthly magazine from 1933 to 1939. Both covers by William Gropper.

"An artist's job is to paint pictures. (...) Didn't Lenin say 'from each according to his ability'". (...) He held up a mighty fist, and added, 'The artist makes the picture and you make the war'". https://t.co/EWynHzj7iP

The Exhibition in Defense of World Democracy: Dedicated to the Peoples of Spain and China toured many US cities in 1937. It was a major show organized by the American Artists' Congress (1936-1942) and part of the popular front of the Communist Party USA getting politically...

April (Russell T. Limbach), May (Phil Bard) and June (Adolf Arthur Dehn) from the Calendar of the American League Against War and Fascism, United States, 1936. Offset lithograph in black on ivory wove paper, Art Institute Chicago.

In 1951, at the height of the McCarthy era, Ishigaki was arrested with his wife and accused of communist activities. However, he was allowed to leave the US and return to Japan where he died in 1958. All images © Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan.

Strong women recur in Ishigaki's images, such as in Resistance (1937) or Spanish Woman (1938), in which self-sufficient women in solidarity are seen battling and defeating the all-pervasive evils of patriarchal oppression.