This t shirt design uses an illustration produced by Walter Crane at the turn of the nineteenth century for the socialist magazine The Clarion.
Walter Crane is perhaps best known for his illustrations of children’s books, which included Little Red Riding Hood, A Floral Fantasy and Puss in Boots among many others . This was the so called Golden Age of children’s book illustration, and Crane was among its’ foremost practitioners, drawing on a heady mixture of the Pre-Raphelites painters and Japanese prints.
What are less widely recognised are the work he completed for Clarion magazine, a weekly socialist publication produced in the last quarter of the ninenteenth century and associated with William Morris.
It was here he combined stunning illustrations with a revolutionary message which must have took many of his admirers by surprise. Here was our own revolutionary art, with slogans and calls to arms, and populated with heroic figures from ordinary life. It seems that the Russians may have learnt a trick or two about propaganda art from their more genteel British Victorian comrades.
Walter Crane is perhaps best known for his illustrations of children’s books, which included Little Red Riding Hood, A Floral Fantasy and Puss in Boots among many others . This was the so called Golden Age of children’s book illustration, and Crane was among its’ foremost practitioners, drawing on a heady mixture of the Pre-Raphelites painters and Japanese prints.
What are less widely recognised are the work he completed for Clarion magazine, a weekly socialist publication produced in the last quarter of the ninenteenth century and associated with William Morris.
It was here he combined stunning illustrations with a revolutionary message which must have took many of his admirers by surprise. Here was our own revolutionary art, with slogans and calls to arms, and populated with heroic figures from ordinary life. It seems that the Russians may have learnt a trick or two about propaganda art from their more genteel British Victorian comrades.
