The Pipe of the Communard
Anatoly Pavlovich Belsky Russian
Not on view
Anatoly Belsky was a graphic and stage designer who studied at the Stroganov Industrial Art School in Moscow. Starting in the second half of the 1920s, he designed film posters and became one of the leading artists in the field. One of the great innovations in Soviet filmmaking during the revolutionary period was the concept of montage, a film technique that influenced the design of movie posters like Belsky’s The Pipe of the Communard. The artist used skewed perspectives and contrasting scales to depict the actors—one of them features larger-than-life—and vivid blue and red colors to enhance the dynamic composition.
