Russia’s newly wealthy have become major buyers of the the most expensive goods the world has to offer. A new trend for many is an interest in fine art.

Russia’s yachting, partying, British football club-acquiring billionaires are, as they mature, refining their tastes, learning the fine art of collecting fine art and breathing new life into a once-struggling Russian market.

Roman Abramovich, Russia’s 42-year-old uber-oligarch, jetted into Moscow this week for the opening of a new contemporary art space which he is funding as a pet project for his girlfriend, fashion designer Daria Zhukova. (St. Petersburg Times)

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There’s a unique style and an engaging beauty to old Soviet propaganda posters. The sinister nature of the messages in many of them almost seem benign in their artful presentation.

The revolution coincided with a period of many radically different art forms in western culture, dada, futurism, constructivism, surrealism and so on. Especially in its early years, propaganda posters produced in Soviet Russia were influenced by such movements.

Though the more experimental looks eventually gave way to designs more akin to what could be seen in other western countries, Soviet propaganda still retained a look of its own, beyond the presence of cyrillic lettering. (Crestock)

Crestock has a small collection with English translations and descriptions.

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