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"Liberation day poster" [NMLH.2022.33]



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Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.33

Object Name
Poster

Title
25 Aprille

Events
Liberation Day

Date
1991

Description
This poster is part of a collection of 100 posters designed by Ettore Vitale for the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) between 1973 and 1991. The posters promote a range of events and campaigns using the colours of the Italian flag- red, white, and green, along with motifs of roses, rainbows, and stars. This poster uses the colours green and blue to resemble hills and sky against which is the cover of a magazine with text on it: "Un impegno di liberta: rinnovare le istituzioni, rinnovare la republica " (English: A commitment to freedom: to renew the institutions, to renew the republic) large black text reads "25 Aprile 1991" 25 April is the date of Italy's Liberation day, to celebrate the victory of the Italian Resistance movement against Nazi Germany in 1946. The top of the poster reads "Unita Socialista / La Storie e l'avvenire" (English: Socialist unity / history to the future)
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