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I've always been a fan of this "Soviet aesthetic". They had a certain appreciation for majestic elegance that I don't think I've seen anywhere else. https://t.co/IpOLat9Qsc
See also their statues https://t.co/KxPadOXClA
and their movie posters from the 20s – bold, intense, foreboding, powerful https://t.co/WtMOBkuhbG https://t.co/5Dw3vgrfym
There's a boldness in motion, a simplicity, an aspiration to strength – and also a certain... deconstruction? It's a little bit trippy. Something about the contrasts & angles, a taking-apart of things. It's decisively NOT 'organic'. You can see Ayn Rand in this (she was Russian) https://t.co/6kxvfVyqLZ
Ah, apparently this (or something related to this) is called Constructivism. I dig it: https://t.co/kn4mZIwzjI
Space-race era Soviet matchboxes. How cool https://t.co/abvCMYvANY
