Battleship Potemkin 1925

This 1925 poster by Alexander Rodchenko advertises the film Battleship Potemkin, a silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein that dramatized the 1905 mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin. The poster features two circular images of the ship's cannons, employing the bold geometric shapes and typography characteristic of Constructivism, a Russian art movement influenced by futurism and cubism. This poster is a great example of a work of art that is also a piece of propaganda, promoting both the film and the Russian Revolution.