Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919) Propaganda Poster

Please note, we also sell a framed version of this poster here on RUS & SOV. About the Poster Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge! (Russian: Клином красным бей белых!) is a 1919 early communist propaganda poster and Suprematist masterpiece by Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (Russian: Лазарь Маркович Лисицкий). The poster, surprising in its simplicity, is full of pictorial symbols and skillfully plays up empty and occupied space: a red triangle symbolizing the Red Army wedges into a white circle, crushing the defenses of the anti-communist and imperialist forces of the White Army. The circle and wedge were the most important motif in Soviet art of the 1920s, becoming the personification of the avant-garde and the graphic embodiment of revolutionary spirit . On a black-and-white background, the inscription “Beat the Whites with a Red Wedge” is visible, an integral part of the composition. Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge! is one of the most celebrated Suprematist works of art. Its influen