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File:Find the range of your patriotism2.jpg, featured

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Info created by Vojtech Preissig - uploaded by Durova - nominated by Durova. Restored from File:Find the range of your patriotism.jpg by Durova. -- Durova (talk) 04:02, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Info 1918 recruitment poster with an unusually good use of negative space for its era. The simplified composition and stylized lettering prefigure the Art Deco esthetic.
Support -- Durova (talk) 04:02, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Thanks. Takabeg (talk) 09:19, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose -- Per en:Ambrose Bierce. Kleuske (talk) 17:33, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Not sure how Ambrose Bierce relates to this. Vojtech Preissig was a typographer and graphic artist who aided the Czech resistance during both World Wars. Unfortunately that got him into trouble during World War II; he died in Dachau in 1944. Durova (talk) 19:37, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - "PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first." Kleuske (talk) 23:59, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- GerardM (talk) 13:34, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 01:16, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Insufficient visual impact for me. --99of9 (talk) 11:35, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Like the nominator said, it shows the aesthetic of the period and the culture very well. The fact that the artist eventually died at the hands of the Nazis is fascinating. Cousin Kevin (talk) 02:57, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Aqwis (talk) 00:39, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 6 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 09:30, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Historical