El Lissitzky - Beat the Whites with the red wedge (1919)

El Lissitzy was a designer and typographer who worked on many posters and exhibitions fo rthe Soviet Union. This, his most famous work, demonstrates his belief of using geometric forms to communicate political ideologies and ideas. It is interesting to see here a break from other Totlitarian regimes in his use of abstract art as proganda. Hitler was renowned for his dislike of anything other than realism ( a contradiction in the idea of propaganda if you ask me) and this rang true in many regimes, with the development of Soviet Realism as a art movement being a prime example. Lissitzy's break from the belief that an image needed to be realistic to be believable could be seen as an example of were the lines between propaganda and other art forms begin to blur.