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DP269.15.B382 1936 Transportation of munitions to the front and foodstuffs to the rearguard was an essential part of the war effort in Republican Spain. In this image, a line of cargo trucks stretches into the distance along an S-shaped road. The unity of the command is emphasized by the orderliness of the trucks as they move from a darkened landscape into one where the light shines. The artist of this piece is José Bardasano. Bardasano (1910-1979) was the child of Madrid working-class parents. A largely self-taught artist, the young Bardasano was working as an artistic director in an advertising agency when war broke out in 1936. Already a member of the communist-controlled JSU (Juventud Socialista Unificada), Bardasano immediately established a workshop with two colleagues and produced numerous propaganda prints and posters for the Communist Party. In 1937, Bardasano and his wife, the artist, Juana Francisca, moved to Valencia, where they continued to produce propaganda posters. At the end of the war, Bardasano and Francisca spent some time in a French concentration camp, after which they took exile in Mexico. Here Bardasano formed the Mexican Fine Arts Circle with a number of other Civil War exiles and Mexican nationals. In 1960, he returned to Madrid. Other representatives of Bardasano's work in this exhibit include: posters 42, 51 and 94. Convoy of army supply trucks on a rural road Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Barcelona?, Partido Comunista de España (sp)
Type
image
Format
1 print (poster) : lithograph, b&w ; 100 x 70 cm
Form/Genre
Posters-Spain-1930-1939. Propaganda-Spain-1938.
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb4471847m
Subject
Anti-fascist movements--Spain--Posters Military assistance, Communist--Spain--Posters War posters, Spanish Propaganda, Communist--Spain Political posters, Spanish Posters-Spain-1930-1939 Propaganda-Spain-1938 Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Posters Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Propaganda
Place
Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939 Posters Propaganda
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