The arts and politics

A strong relationship between the arts and politics, particularly between various kinds of art and power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_arts_and_politics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_arts_and_politics

Augustus of Primaporta

http://www.paganspace.net/forum/topics/hand-amulets-gestures?page=13&commentId=1342861%3AComment%3A9956127&x=1#1342861Comment9956127

Ivan Shadr.The Cobbleston Is The Weapon Of The Proletariat
Иван Шадр.Булыжник оружие пролетариата.

Vera Mukhina, Worker and Collective Farm Worker, 1937
Вера Мухина. Рабочий и колхозница.1937

http://www.archvestnik.ru/node/2138
Павильоны СССР и Германии на Всемирной выставке 1937 г. в Париже.

Vera Mukhina
http://vivovoco.rsl.ru/VV/ARTS/MUKHINA/ZAMKOV.HTM

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman monument on the reconstructed pavilion of the World's Fair of 1937 in paris - now in the entrance of the exhibition center.Moscow.

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbglasgow/5595461464/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Родина мать.

Completed in 1967, the statue "Motherland is Calling" is 52 metres high (171 feet), made of 7900 tons of reinforced concrete. The sword is made of stainless steel, 29 metres long and weighs 14 tons.

Pablo Picasso Guernica