Supermarket - Order, and we'll deliver it to your home

Sinka Mátyás

Publication Date: 1950

About this Item

Size: A1 1 Sheet (cca. 84 x 59 cm). Socialist realist poster from the 1950s advertising home delivery service from the state owned supermarkets The poster was created by M ty s Sinka The artist graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in the 1950s when he adopted the compulsory norms of Socialist Realism Later he created numerous humorous and interesting posters for campaigns for prevention from accidents promoting healthcare traffic rules and anti alcoholism but he also worked for the state propaganda This piece is one of his early propaganda works Although it was designed for commercial reasons it can be considered as part of the propaganda due to the fact that the whole commercial market was nationalized and it was controlled artificially by the political leadership This work employs the obligatory realist portrayal with the greyish scale of terrene colours and the propagandistic message A typical smiling figure is depicted driving a motorcycle full of packets and boxes In reality there was a huge lack of products these years though Very good, restored paper loss at upper right corner. Seller Inventory # 1043

Bibliographic Details

Title: Supermarket - Order, and we'll deliver it to...

Publication Date: 1950

Binding: Paper, offset lithography.