One above is Symphony of the 6th Blast Furnace (1979). Others:
People of Fire I (1979):
People of Fire II (1979):
People of Fire III (1979):
Lights of Laboring Tagil (1984):
love it
Beautiful and inspiring.
I love Renaissance paintings more but holy fucking shit.
Me too. Renaissance was definitely a peak, but I don’t understand why people knock socialist realism so much.
Because muh degenerate art.
Found some more of his works here: https://dzen.ru/a/Y9RiwtuQ1hYIi7bL
spits out pasta
Is… is that last one (Lights of Laboring Tagil) Midgar from FF7?
Uh… not sure, you’re going to have to explain the reference to me, comrade.
Final Fantasy 7 is a game about how capitalism and industrialization is killing the planet and it features a heavily industrialized city, called Midgar, where the wealthy live in the sunshine on a plate that is elevated above the heavily polutted slums, where everyone else lives without ever seeing the sun.
The painting is quite reminiscent of the asthetics of Midgar.
Me being a snarky USAi’ian mostly.
But yeah, the first “town” in the video game Final Fantasy 7 is big city named Midgar. At a few points you get a sky eye view of the city and its set up pretty much like that painting. A huge power plant in the center, sky rise towers surrounding it built on top of various levels of older constructions with slums on the bottom.
