Offset lithography in three colors on paper measuring 27 by 19 inches (oblong orientation). Although unsigned, this piece has been attributed to the Portuguese surrealist artist, Marcelino Vespeira (1925 - 2002), who employs the colors of the Portuguese flag and the images of red and white carnations - symbols of the 25 April 1974 revolution that overthrew the fascist dictatorship - to graphically express the role played by the arts in shaping the democratic future of the country. Vespeira was a member of the Movimento Democrátco de Artes Plásticos (MDAP), and this poster likely featured in the 10 June, 1974 Day of Solidarity the MDAP held in conjunction with the Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA) - the military group behind the 1974 coup. Engaging politically with the MFA gave the MDAP a seat at the table in undoing the nationalistic aesthetic of Salazar's Estado Novo, including the decades of arts censorship, setting into motion a process of "cultural democratization." To that end, Vespeira and other MDAP artists would ultimately join some MFA cultural oversight committees, illustrating their understanding of the importance "of artists' effective democratic participation in Portugal's new social and political context, as it emerged from a dictatorship where the public sphere had been uninterruptedly constrained" (Cruzeiro 315). Light wrinkling consistent with use; colors bright and unfaded. A remarkable survival. (See: Cruzeiro, Cristina Pratas. Flower Freedom, Fire Imagination, Strength Unity, Art Revolution: The symbolism of cultural guerilla in the Portuguese revolutionary process [1974-1976]).