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Spanish Propaganda Poster 1963 | Sindicato Vertical
Spanish Propaganda Poster 1963 | Sindicato Vertical
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A blue overall-clad worker and a brown-suited office worker stride forward, bodies overlapping, the brown figure holding a white placard marked VOTO. The Sindicato Vertical emblem, a red wheat sheaf and gear motif on a black ground, sits upper left. The amber-ochre field, the flat cobalt and brown silhouettes, the crimson slab-serif headline ELECCIONES SINDICALES: the composition resolves to a single graphic statement about participation, solidarity, and the managed rhetoric of labour under a controlled state.
Designed by Aminata and printed by EDICOOK, this poster was produced for Spain's 1963 Elecciones Sindicales under the Organizacion Sindical Espanola, the compulsory Sindicato Vertical that enrolled all Spanish workers from 1940 until 1977. The 1963 convocatoria was the second syndical election of the decade. It coincided, with some tension, with the early mobilisation of clandestine Comisiones Obreras, which used these controlled elections as a channel for independent worker representation within the Francoist structure. The Deposito Legal reference in the lower margin confirms formal state registration.
The flat-colour modernist style and the gestural brushstroke silhouettes place this work in the wider mid-century European tradition of labour graphics, here adapted to the specific visual language of Francoist corporatism. The two-worker composition, manual and administrative trades side by side, was a deliberate framing of the vertical union's claimed synthesis of all labour.
Reproduced from a verified archival source as a fine art print on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper using the giclée process.
