Entartete Kunst

January 6, 2011 7:27 PM

Born in Concrete; Canadian artist Derek Stenning creates grim, Soviet-inspired futuristic space posters. Blog; Flickr photostream.
posted by bwg (12 comments total)

sweet
posted by clavdivs at 7:34 PM on January 6, 2011 [1 favorite]

What else is there to be said? These are fantastic. Degenerate art, indeed.
posted by chimaera at 9:03 PM on January 6, 2011 [1 favorite]

Love them!
posted by greenhornet at 10:29 PM on January 6, 2011

Gorgeous. Truly. I wish I has access to a good color printer. Although Actually they might look pretty cool in B&W on thick glossy stock.

This is a treasure trove herein. Thx you.
posted by Skygazer at 1:05 AM on January 7, 2011

This guy should be creating graphic novels of Stanislaw Lem books.
posted by thermonuclear.jive.turkey at 3:08 AM on January 7, 2011 [2 favorites]

Tentacles. There's always tentacles. That's why you won't find me in space.
posted by dougrayrankin at 4:56 AM on January 7, 2011 [2 favorites]

This guy should be creating graphic novels of Stanislaw Lem books.

Or Ken MacLeod books.
posted by acb at 7:09 AM on January 7, 2011 [1 favorite]

These look gorgeous, but I was a bit distracted by the blackletter in this one. It's so un-russian.
posted by thsmchnekllsfascists at 7:36 AM on January 7, 2011

Why do all of these people look so sad? They have robot balloons! Robot balloons are supposed to turn that frown upside down!
posted by gurple at 8:43 AM on January 7, 2011 [1 favorite]

These look gorgeous, but I was a bit distracted by the blackletter in this one. It's so un-russian.

I don't think the effect is meant to be so much Russian as grim 20th-century gravitas (hence the Third Reich references and allusions to the fraught history of the Jewish people in both totalitarian regimes).
posted by acb at 9:09 AM on January 7, 2011 [1 favorite]

I don't think the effect is meant to be so much Russian as grim 20th-century gravitas (hence the Third Reich references and allusions to the fraught history of the Jewish people in both totalitarian regimes).

Ahhhh okay gotcha. I didn't have time to examine them in more detail than "Pedant Font Nerd" mode. I missed all the hexagrams. "Born in Concrete" makes much more sense now. Thanks.
posted by thsmchnekllsfascists at 11:37 AM on January 7, 2011

How did I miss this? These are great!
posted by brundlefly at 1:07 PM on January 13, 2011