Student Realism

An exhibition by a selection of third year Honours History of Art students, from the University of Aberdeen, will open at the James Mackay Hall, King’s College, today (December 12). On show will be some of the students’ own Soviet-style posters.

Following their study of Russian avant-garde poster advertisements, the students created an exhibition entitled ‘Student Realism,’ to show the student perspective of university life.

Key Soviet artists such as Gustav Klucis, El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko, all of whom worked to further the message of socialism, influenced the creation of the students’ works. Roxanne Mackie, of the group’s management team, said that “Our intention is to show what life is like as a student at the University of Aberdeen – what it is like to live and to study here, depicting a more light-hearted side of the experience."