Savior of the World
Artist
Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov
Russia, 1883 - 1946
Printer
Mospoligraf Moscow
Datec. 1925
Dimensions28 1/4 x 42 1/2 in. (71.8 x 108 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.300
DescriptionThis is one of the large posters by Dimitrii Moor that was offered as a bonus to subscribers of the Soviet periodical Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at the Workbench), founded in 1923 to promote the Bolshevik state’s anti-religious ideology and policies. This one also appeared in a smaller version with a different caption that was included in a 1927 portfolio of designs from the journal. Moor vividly describes how Christian ethos will inevitably lead the people to a terrible doom. Here, a vast, unsuspecting crowd reverently follows Christ over the edge of a promontory, this time into the hideous gaping mouth of a bespectacled man (who possibly represents the archetypal capitalist businessman).On View
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