Timeless poster art

I thought I’d put this up just because I like it so much. Stunning poster art from the 1930s, from the Spanish CNT-FAI:

From this wonderful collection of Spanish Civil War posters.

It may be 70 years old, but there’s something extremely contemporary about that poster, both in style and substance. (I get something of the same feeling about the CNT-FAI generally.)

Mother’s Day Addendum

My late mother wasn’t the world’s greatest pianist, but she was an enthusiastic one, and did have a quite good singing voice. She had some old songbooks that she would play and sing from, and one of her favorites was a song that even as a small child I found moving and beautiful, a song from the Spanish Civil War. These are the lyrics as I recall them, and cannot help recalling them in her voice:

Spanish heavens filled with brilliant starlight
High above the trenches in the plain
With the dawning morning comes to greet us
Calling us to battle once again
Far off is our land
Yet proudly we stand
We’re fighting and winning for you
Freiheit!