Stylogeny combining Hungarian Revolutionary Poster × Spanish Civil War Poster

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Hungarian Revolutionary Poster × Spanish Civil War Poster

Both throw one bursting figure across a red-and-black lithograph; borrow Spain's acronym signatures and stacked slogans to give a Budapest-style hero an organisation behind it.

From the research on Hungarian Revolutionary Poster

Mix them and make something Hungarian Revolutionary Poster Spanish Civil War Poster

ACTHungarian Revolutionary × Spanish Civil
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Spanish Civil War Poster, their arrangement from Hungarian Revolutionary Poster, the finish from Hungarian Revolutionary Poster. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Hungarian Revolutionary Poster Spanish Civil War Poster

Type from Hungarian Revolutionary Poster
Colour from Spanish Civil War Poster
Form from Spanish Civil War Poster
Composition from Hungarian Revolutionary Poster
Surface from Hungarian Revolutionary Poster

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The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Hungarian Revolutionary Poster

Act

Big Shoulders, standing in for Heavy hand-drawn poster capitals for short Hungarian slogans and dates, lettered on the stone with the figure

Text · Spanish Civil War Poster

The poster war waged by the Spanish Republic, its unions and its anarchist, communist and socialist parties against Franco's uprising. Unionised commercial artists painted gouache designs that lithographers split onto three or four zinc plates, so foreshortened militiamen, peasants and fists burst from flat red-and-black fields under stacked hand-lettered slogans and party acronyms. Renau's photomontage, Deco polish, caricature and Miró's stencil coexisted.

Oswald; Spanish Civil War Poster used Hand-drawn condensed grotesque capitals and Brush-painted slogan lettering in Castilian and Catalan

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Spanish Civil War Poster, with a counter-accent from Hungarian Revolutionary Poster. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Hungarian Revolutionary Poster Spanish Civil War Poster

  • #efe3c6 ground · 36%
  • #141414 ink · 14%
  • #f1b52f accent · 18%
  • #c62a1f accent · 14%
  • #c8952f accent · 10%
  • #5f2b6b accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #efe3c6;
  --ink: #141414;
  --accent-1: #f1b52f;
  --accent-2: #c62a1f;
  --accent-3: #c8952f;
  --accent-4: #5f2b6b;
  --font-display: "Big Shoulders", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Oswald", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Hungarian Revolutionary Poster: Biró's red hammer man 'has been much repeated in Central European political iconography up to the present day' (MoMA), so it is still a live political sign. These are propaganda posters of a regime whose 133 days included the Red Terror, in which up to 590 people were killed; do not present them as neutral folk heroics. In Hungary the hammer and sickle and the five-pointed red star are restricted symbols under Btk. § 335 when distributed, used in public or displayed in a way that can disturb public peace, especially by offending the dignity of the victims of totalitarian regimes; keep them out of work aimed there. Never borrow the antisemitic 'Jewish Bolshevik' caricature that anti-communist posters of 1919 turned against the Republic, as in Manno Miltiades's poster in the USHMM's Katz Ehrenthal Collection.

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The two styles

A monumental red-and-black worker, viewed from below, grips a long diagonal beam above a procession of smaller workers. Factory chimneys, a bridge and a golden rising sun fill the background, with large red lettering reading “ELŐRE” across the bottom. 1912–1919 · Central Europe Hungarian Revolutionary Poster The political posters of Hungary's revolutions. Mihály Biró drew his red hammer man for the newspaper Népszava in 1912; it returned after the Aster Revolution of October 1918 and in huge numbers during the 133-day Republic of Councils of 1919, when Biró, Pór, Berény, Bortnyik and others covered Budapest in large stone lithographs. One monumental worker, soldier or nude, often red, swings, leaps or whirls across the sheet above a short hand-lettered slogan. With no official style decreed, Biró's Secession-tinged realism hung beside Pór's classicised nudes and the Activists' cubo-expressionism. A painted propaganda-style poster shows a woman in a red headscarf looking upward, with a large foreshortened hand gripping a rifle in the foreground. Behind her are a yellow sun and ranks of armed figures carrying red, yellow and purple flags, beneath the large red word “AVANZA.” 1936–1939 · Southern Europe Spanish Civil War Poster The poster war waged by the Spanish Republic, its unions and its anarchist, communist and socialist parties against Franco's uprising. Unionised commercial artists painted gouache designs that lithographers split onto three or four zinc plates, so foreshortened militiamen, peasants and fists burst from flat red-and-black fields under stacked hand-lettered slogans and party acronyms. Renau's photomontage, Deco polish, caricature and Miró's stencil coexisted.

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