Pictures of Soviet artists of the 50s. Private sales
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In this section - Soviet painting, socialist realism. Artists of the Soviet period, which covers half a century of Soviet art, for the period from 1930-1980, you can buy a picture of almost any Soviet artist on any topic.
Industrial landscape. Industrial landscape, Soviet sports in painting. Holidays and workdays in the Soviet fine arts are a kind of izoreportages of that time. Soviet painting of the 50-60s is the most demanded segment in our section.
Buy a painting as a gift.
You can not only buy socialist realism as a symbol of the era, but also acquire the forest and river landscapes of the Moscow region and the Volga, the sunny Crimea and Central Asia, as well as hundreds of other corners of our vast homeland, which are mesmerizing with their unique beauty. The Soviet landscape often showed the connection between man and nature. Suffice it to recall the names familiar to everyone from childhood “On Peaceful Fields”, “Over the Snows” copies of these paintings by famous Soviet artists are always in great demand.
Buy still life. Buy a genre painting.
Soviet painters absorbed all the best that was created in world realistic art. Outstanding masters of AHRR and OST laid down those painting traditions that were successfully implemented by Soviet artists of the post-war generation. Still lifes with flowers and fruits symbolize abundance and fertility and are often devoid of an ideological component.
Buy landscapes of Moscow and views of Leningrad.
Often, Soviet painting represented a fictional world, the illusion of a bright and festive life. The landscape genre allowed many masters to remain sincere. The Moscow streets depicted in the works of the 50-60s evoke healthy nostalgia and mentally transport us to the days of our student youth and allow us to recall the details of that unique era long gone.
Buy a portrait.
The Soviet portrait took shape during these years as an independent movement, showing a person as the creator of a new world. The world of labor, exploits and creation. Grekov's studio artists are especially often represented in this genre. Portraits of Soviet military leaders, Portraits of Soviet writers and creative intelligentsia, such exhibitions were held within the walls of our gallery.
The Soviet painting school was rightfully considered the best at that period, using the heritage of world realistic art, and that is why many famous artists trained and studied at the Academy of Arts of the USSR. Realistic style of execution, the highest academic excellence, these are the main criteria by which it is profitable to buy a painting or several for your interior or private collection. Contact our staff and you will find the most advantageous offers, both for buying a painting as a gift and for decorating your everyday life.
Soviet painting of the 20th century this is our specialty. We buy and sell paintings by Soviet artists. Artists of the severe style, Soviet impressionism, artists of the left Leningrad Union of Artists and the group of "eleven", unknown socialist realism Leningrad school, Soviet monumental artists, socialist realism in architecture, these are the directions that we constantly exhibit at our auctions and numerous exhibitions.
Sale and purchase of paintings of socialist realism. All this can be easily done by contacting us. Today, Soviet artists, like masters of socialist realism, are again on the wave of popularity. Evidence of this is not only the successful auction sales of the Soviet painting school, both within the walls of our auction house Sovcom and at the world's leading auction sites.
Soviet painting sale. We constantly buy paintings by Soviet artists and hold several thematic exhibitions a year. Probably we have the largest selection of works on all topics and do not be upset if you did not find in this section what you immediately liked. The funds of our gallery are much larger. Contact us and we will definitely find you exactly what you need.
Investment in art.
We have been working for more than 15 years and during this time we have created many significant collections that are not only pleasing to the eye, but also made it possible to make profitable investments in art, and some have replenished museum collections and made expositions of new private museums.
Russian painting is rightfully distinguished from the world of art. The fact is that until the seventeenth century, Russian painting was associated exclusively with a religious theme. The situation changed with the coming to power of the tsar-reformer - Peter the Great. Thanks to his reforms, Russian masters began to engage in secular painting, there was a separation of icon painting as a separate direction. The seventeenth century is the time of artists such as Simon Ushakov and Joseph Vladimirov. Then, in the Russian art world, the portrait was born and quickly became popular. In the eighteenth century, the first painters appeared who switched from portrait painting to landscape painting. A pronounced sympathy of the masters for winter panoramas is noticeable. The eighteenth century was also remembered for the birth of everyday painting. In the nineteenth century, as many as three trends gained popularity in Russia: romanticism, realism and classicism. As before, Russian artists continued to turn to the portrait genre. It was then that world-famous portraits and self-portraits of O. Kiprensky and V. Tropinin appeared. In the second half of the nineteenth century, artists more and more often depict the simple Russian people in their oppressed state. Realism became the central trend in painting of this period. It was then that the Wanderers appeared, depicting only real, real life. Well, the twentieth century is, of course, the avant-garde. The artists of that time greatly influenced both their followers in Russia and around the world. Their paintings became the forerunners of abstract art. Russian painting is a huge amazing world of talented artists who glorified Russia with their creations
The Soviet period in the history of Russia is a period of almost eighty years, during which the country, without a shadow of a doubt, has changed more than in the last two hundred years of the reign of the Romanov dynasty. These changes affected absolutely all spheres of life, from everyday moments to breakthroughs in science, the development of technology and, of course, art.
One cannot ignore the fact that the population of pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary Russia is absolutely two different societies, and the revolution of 1917 itself became a kind of watershed that forever established the boundaries of eras.
Historical events can be viewed in different ways, but for collectors of antiquity and art, history is the scenery within which the subject of their interest was created on the stage of time. For those studying the artifacts of time, history serves as an explanation of why a particular thing looks the way it is and not another. It cannot be denied that the Soviet government began its struggle against the illiteracy of the population and paid the maximum possible attention to education issues, realizing that such citizens would be at least a little more useful to society. Art education, which was previously available to a much smaller percentage of the population, was no exception. Of course, the party elite and the leadership of the USSR had their own interest in this. They needed those who would illustrate the life of the new country and demonstrate its achievements and superiority over the old world. Nevertheless, despite the huge imprint of propaganda, which could not but leave an imprint on art workers and their works, it was in the Soviet Union that many artists who later became very famous were born and developed. But the creators, who began their journey even under tsarist Russia, developed in many ways faster than their Western colleagues, Soviet painting had its own recognizable handwriting and style.
If you are reading this text, then to one degree or another you are interested in such a layer in the visual arts as Soviet painting. Working with canvases of artists is a priority direction of the "Russian Antique Gallery" and, of course, we could not ignore the most interesting works of Russian artists who painted their paintings during the Soviet era.
You don't have to be a sophisticated collector to want to buy paintings from the times of the Soviet Union. With a relatively democratic cost in comparison with the paintings of Western European artists of the nineteenth century, the paintings of the Soviet Union are no less interesting and were written in a unique period of time by real masters. Often, Russian and not only art lovers begin their collection of paintings with the works of artists of the USSR. One of the explanations for the interest in Russian painting of that period can be called the unusually high level of training of artists and art education of the Soviet school in general, as well as the great availability of education in general.
We are proud to offer you, before buying a Soviet painting, to familiarize yourself with our section in order to assess the level of skill and genius of Soviet artists, to choose your favorite canvases.
For many, Soviet painting will certainly evoke nostalgic feelings, because these works largely reflect their childhood. Half-forgotten life of the past, old buildings and streets that have changed beyond recognition today, stadiums, demonstrations, labor of workers, harvesting, scenes from production facilities, demonstration of the achievements of Soviet masters. These motives come down to us from the paintings of many creators of the USSR. Our collection includes works by artists such as:
A.A Deineka
E.E Moiseenko
A.I Lutsenko
Yu.A. Volkov
If you want to start collecting paintings of the USSR, then we recommend that you first define the boundaries of your collection. They can be the time period, subject matter, creative association, the way the painting is applied, and much more. Of course, when defining the boundaries of your future collection, it is best to consult with people immersed in the environment of antique fine art, who will at least help you with advice on how to avoid pitfalls and mistakes that lie in wait for beginners. Experts of the "Russian Antique Gallery" are always ready to give you advice on any questions of interest.
Also, we always advise you to start with the collection to buy Soviet paintings by little-known artists at the moment. Their paintings are cheaper, but just like any antiques, they are consistently growing in price, being an excellent investment, much more reliable than modern banks. Moreover, the world of antique fine art also has its own fashion. Only yesterday, the artist, known only to a narrow circle of professionals, suddenly receives world recognition, an academic scientific article or scientific-pop material is published on the topic of his work, and his canvases instantly become necessary for everyone and everyone, and, therefore, seriously increase in price. And such cases are by no means an exception.
You can buy a painting by a Soviet artist as well as a decorative item. And this solution also has many advantages that cannot be discounted. Note that the painting of the USSR has its own characteristic and recognizable features, the skillful use of which makes it possible either to create a certain atmosphere of a bygone era, or to emphasize a certain "Russianness" of the space in which the painting is located. Soviet painting is very accessible to those looking for an interior solution by the very fact of its quantity, and, therefore, this section of the "Russian Antique Gallery" is regularly updated. The stylistic and genre variety of works by Russian artists in the USSR is no less interesting. The rapid change in the ideological paradigms of Soviet society gave birth to a lot in an astonishingly short time. The explosion of the avant-garde, which gave rise to absolutely all the main directions of art of the twentieth century: abstractionism, suprematism, constructivism, futurism, rayonism, analytical art, which developed towards socialist realism. Later, thanks to this amazingly multifaceted path, the world of fine arts received non-conformist artists who created their canvases from the 60s to the end of the 80s of the twentieth century. And all this diversity existed
and developed in parallel, being either in favor or out of favor with the ruling elite. This is an incredible and multifaceted period, which is simply impossible not to love and appreciate.
Despite the fact that the "Russian Antique Gallery" deals with the rarities of the past, we all live in the world of the present and quite modern. Who better than us to know that the most valuable thing a person has is time. And in pursuit of his witnesses, you can lose this precious resource. While creating this site, the team of our store has made a lot of efforts to make it as convenient and simple to buy Soviet paintings as possible, in order to save your personal time, which you can always spend on things that are important to you.
It is easy and simple to buy paintings by Soviet artists today in our online store, spending just a few minutes and performing the minimum possible number of steps. Absolutely every item from the archives of our store is presented on our website, accompanied by a detailed description, with the maximum possible indication of all important data for the rarity, as well as high-quality photographs in which you can easily see the antiques in the smallest detail. To buy Soviet painting, all that remains for you is to find a painting that is interesting to you, place it in the basket and place an order. After that, our managers will contact you and discuss the details.
If you have any questions about any painting or object presented in our online store, you can always contact us through the feedback form or call the phone number indicated in the upper right corner. Our experts are always happy to help you.
For those who are accustomed to making purchases only by directly examining the object with their own eyes, our online store, where Soviet painting is presented, is also not useless. It shows the current availability of items in our collection and allows you to get all the necessary brief information about the antiques you are interested in.
Our team of experts works daily in the direction of finding new unique items for our collection and is always ready to accept individual orders for the search for specific items. It is best to buy a Soviet painting, come to our store and tell our consultant which painting you are interested in, and we will accept your request for work. Behind the shoulders of the employees of the "Russian Antique Gallery" hundreds of completed individual orders, and we are sure that we will be able to find the item you are interested in on mutually beneficial terms.
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READ COMPLETELYThis section presents paintings by Soviet artists, contains paintings of various genres: here you can find both landscape and still life, portraits and various genre scenes.
At the moment, Soviet painting has gained great popularity among both professionals and art lovers: numerous exhibitions and auctions are organized. In our section of Soviet painting, you can choose a picture not only for interior decoration, but also for a collection. Many works of the era of socialist realism have historical significance: for example, city landscapes have preserved for us the lost appearance of familiar places since childhood: here you will find views of Moscow, Leningrad and other cities of the former USSR.
Of particular interest are genre scenes: like documentary newsreels, they recorded the peculiarities of the life of a Soviet person. The portraits of this time also remarkably convey the mood of the era, tell about people of various professions and destinies: here are workers, and peasant women, and military leaders, and, of course, the leaders of the proletariat. Children's portraits of the era of socialist realism are a direct embodiment of the concept of "happy childhood". The site also widely presents the genre of industrial landscape typical of Soviet art.
Our experts will help you choose a suitable painting or sell works from your collection on our website.
In the category of antiques "Soviet Fine Art" there are more than 2 thousand different works of masters from the period of the revolution of 1917 to 1991. The official ideological thought exerted a great influence on the creators of this period, which is reflected in many thematic works presented in this catalog. Art has become closer to the common man, as evidenced by the unique portraits of ordinary workers, pioneers, and Komsomol members. Such works are presented by the antiques store on its pages.
Military themes became a separate area of Soviet inventive art. Such antiques are valuable not only for the technique of execution, but also for the history itself, displayed on the canvas. The cost of each canvas is determined individually, depending on the following important factors:
- its plot uniqueness;
- thematic area;
- the chosen writing technique and its quality of execution.
"Buy a Painting" gives users a unique opportunity to purchase antiques of those times at affordable prices. Pictures perfectly convey the feelings and experiences of a Soviet person, reflect his everyday life. The user's attention is presented with antiques depicting the great leaders of the USSR, posters with slogans known throughout the country, still lifes, illustrations from books, graphic works and, of course, beautiful landscapes from various parts of the Soviet state.
In the antique shop you can find traditional paintings from that period. Many Soviet artists worked in the genre of realism, and starting in the 60s, the direction of the "severe style" became popular. Still lifes on various themes were also very popular. Such antiques are also presented on the site, and you can view all the offers.
It is worth noting that posters on political themes have become a separate type of visual art of the Soviet period. They played an important social and ideological role. These antiques have survived to this day, some examples are presented in the corresponding category "Buy a painting". Beautiful landscapes of eminent Soviet masters are of tremendous artistic value and adorn the best Russian galleries today. In the catalog you can find their reproductions and make a purchase.
The culture of the Soviet and post-Soviet period is a bright large-scale turn of the Russian heritage. The events of 1917 became a reference point in the development of a new way of life, the formation of new thinking. The mood of society at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. poured into the October Revolution, a turning point in the history of the country. Now a new future awaited her with its own ideals and goals. Art, which in a sense is a mirror of the era, has also become a tool for the implementation of the dogmas of the new regime. Unlike other types of artistic creation, painting, which forms and shapes human thought, most accurately and directly penetrated the minds of people. On the other hand, pictorial art was least of all subordinated to the propaganda function and reflected the feelings of the people, their dreams and, above all, the spirit of the times.
Russian avant-garde
The new art did not completely avoid the old traditions. Painting, in the first post-revolutionary years, absorbed the influence of the futurists and the avant-garde in general. The avant-garde, with its contempt for the traditions of the past, which was so close to the destructive ideas of the revolution, found adherents in the person of young artists. In parallel with these trends, realistic tendencies developed in the visual arts, which were given life by the critical realism of the 19th century. This bipolarity, which matured at the time of the change of eras, made the life of the artist of that time especially tense. The two paths that were outlined in post-revolutionary painting, although they were opposites, nevertheless, we can observe the influence of the avant-garde on the work of artists of the realistic direction. Realism itself in those years was diverse. The works of this style have a symbolic, propaganda and even romantic appearance. The work of B.M. Kustodieva - "Bolshevik" and, filled with pathetic tragedy and irrepressible glee "New Planet" by K.F. Yuona.
P.N. Filonov, with his special creative method - “analytical realism” - is a fusion of two contrasting artistic trends, which we can see in the cycle with the agitational name and meaning “Entering the world flourishing”.
P.N. Filonov Ships from the cycle Entering the world flourishing. 1919 Tretyakov Gallery
The unquestioning nature of universal human values, unshakable even in such troubled times, expresses the image of the beautiful “Petrograd Madonna” (the official name is “1918 in Petrograd”) K.S. Petrova-Vodkina.
A positive attitude towards revolutionary events infects the light and filled with a sunny, airy atmosphere the creativity of the landscape painter A. Rylova. The landscape "Sunset", in which the artist expressed a premonition of the fire of the revolution, which will flare up from the growing flame of the judgment fire over a bygone era, is one of the inspiring symbols of this time.
Along with the symbolic images that organized the rise of the people's spirit and carried away with them, like an obsession, there was also a direction in realistic painting, with a craving for a concrete transfer of reality.
To this day, the works of this period keep a spark of rebellion that can assert itself within each of us. Many works that were not endowed with such qualities or contradicted them were destroyed or forgotten, and will never be presented to our eyes.
The avant-garde will forever leave its imprint on realistic painting, but a period of intensive development of the direction of realism begins.
The time of artistic associations
1920s - the time of the creation of a new world on the ruins left by the Civil War. For art, this is a period in which various creative associations developed their activities in full force. Their principles were shaped in part by early art groupings. The Association of Artists of the Revolution (1922 - AHRR, 1928 - AHR), personally carried out orders from the state. Under the slogan of "heroic realism," the artists who were part of it documented in their works the life and everyday life of a person - the brainchild of the revolution, in various genres of painting. The main representatives of the AHRR were I.I. Brodsky, who absorbed the realistic influences of I.E. Repin, who worked in the historical-revolutionary genre and created a whole series of works depicting V.I. Lenin, E.M. Cheptsov is a master of the genre of genre, M.B. Grekov, who painted battle scenes in a rather impressionistic madder. All of these masters were the founders of the genres in which they performed most of their work. Among them, the canvas "Lenin in Smolny" stands out, in which I.I. Brodsky conveyed the image of the leader in the most direct and sincere form.
In the painting "Meeting of the member cell" E.I. Cheptsov very reliably, without far-fetchedness, depicts the events that took place in the life of the people.
M.B. Greeks in the composition "Trumpeters of the First Cavalry Army".
The idea of a new person, a new image of a person is expressed by the trends emerging in the portrait genre, the brightest masters of which were S.V. Malyutin and G.G. Ryazhsky. In the portrait of the writer-soldier Dmitry Furmanov S.V. Malyutin shows a man of the old world who managed to fit into the new world. A new trend, which originated in the work of N.A. Kasatkina and developed to the highest degree in female images by G.G. Ryazhsky - "Delegate", "Chairwoman", in which the personal principle is erased and the type of person created by the new world is established.
An absolutely accurate impression is formed about the development of the landscape genre at the sight of the work of the leading landscape painter B.N. Yakovleva - "Transport is getting better".
B.N. Yakovlev Transport is getting better. 1923
This genre depicts a renewing country, the normalization of all spheres of life. During these years, the industrial landscape comes to the fore, the images of which become symbols of creation.
The Society of Easel Painters (1925) was the next artistic association in this period. Here the artist strove to convey the spirit of modernity, the type of a new person, resorting to a more detached transmission of images due to the minimum number of means of expression. In the works of "Ostovtsev" the theme of sport is often demonstrated. Their painting is filled with dynamics and expression, which can be seen in the works of A.A. Deineki "Defense of Petrograd", Yu.P. Pimenov "Football" and others.
As the basis of their artistic creativity, members of another well-known association - "Four Arts" - chose the expressiveness of the image, due to the laconic and constructive form, as well as a special attitude to its color saturation. The most memorable representative of the association is K.S. Petrov-Vodkin and one of his most outstanding works of this period - "The Death of the Commissar", which through a special pictorial language reveals a deep symbolic image, a symbol of the struggle for a better life.
P.V. Kuznetsov, works dedicated to the East.
The last major artistic association of this period is the Society of Moscow Artists (1928), which differs from the others in the manner of energetic sculpting of volumes, attention to chiaroscuro and plastic expressiveness of form. Almost all representatives were members of the "Volta of Diamonds" - adherents of futurism - which greatly affected their work. The works of P.P. Konchalovsky, who worked in different genres. For example, portraits of his wife O.V. Konchalovskaya convey the specifics of not only the author's hand, but also the painting of the entire association.
By the decree "On the restructuring of literary and artistic organizations" on April 23, 1932, all artistic associations were dissolved and the Union of Artists of the USSR was created. Creativity fell into the sinister shackles of rigid ideologization. The artist's freedom of expression, the basis of the creative process, has been violated. Despite such a breakdown, the artists previously united in communities continued their activities, but new figures took the leading role in the pictorial environment.
B.V. Ioganson was influenced by I.E. Repin and V.I. Surikov, in his canvases one can see compositional search and interesting possibilities in the coloristic solution, but the author's paintings are marked by an excessive satirical attitude, inappropriate in such a naturalistic manner that we can observe the example of the painting "At the Old Ural Factory".
A.A. Deineka does not stay away from the "official" line of art. He is still true to his artistic principles. Now he continues to work in genre subjects, in addition, he paints portraits and landscapes. The painting "Future Pilots" well shows his painting during this period: romantic, light.
The artist creates a large number of works on a sports theme. From this period, his watercolors, painted after 1935, remained.
Painting of the 1930s represents a fictional world, the illusion of a bright and festive life. It was easiest for the artist to remain sincere in the landscape genre. The genre of still life is developing.
The portrait is also subject to intensive development. P.P. Konchalovsky writes a series of cultural figures ("V. Sofronitsky at the piano"). The works of M.V. Nesterov, who absorbed the influence of painting by V.A. Serov, show a person as a creator, the essence of whose life is a creative search. This is how we see the portraits of the sculptor I.D. Shadr and surgeon S.S. Yudin.
P.D. Corinne continues the portrait tradition of the previous artist, but his painting style consists in conveying the rigidity of form, a sharper, more expressive silhouette and austere color. In general, the theme of the creative intelligentsia plays a great role in the portrait.
Artist at war
With the advent of the Great Patriotic War, artists begin to take an active part in hostilities. Due to the direct unity with events, in the early years, works appear, the essence of which is the fixation of what is happening, "a picturesque sketch". Often such paintings lacked depth, but their transmission expressed a completely sincere attitude of the artist, the height of moral pathos. The portrait genre is coming to a relative prosperity. Artists, seeing and experiencing the destructive influence of war, admire its heroes - people from the people, persistent and noble spirit, who displayed the highest humanistic qualities. Such tendencies resulted in ceremonial portraits: “Portrait of Marshal G.K. Zhukov ”by P.D. Korina, cheerful faces from the paintings of P.P. Konchalovsky. The portraits of the intelligentsia of M.S. Saryan, created during the war - this is the image of the academician “I.A. Orbeli ", the writer" M.S. Shahinyan "and others.
From 1940 to 1945, landscape and genre also developed, which A.A. Layers. "Fascist Flew" conveys the tragedy of the life of this period.
The psychologism of the landscape here fills the work even more with the sadness and silence of the human soul, only the howl of a devoted friend cuts through the wind of confusion. Ultimately, the meaning of the landscape is rethought and begins to personify the harsh image of wartime.
Subject pictures stand out separately, for example, "Mother of the Partisan" by S.V. Gerasimova, which is characterized by a refusal to glorify the image.
Historical painting timely creates images of national heroes of the past. One of such unshakable and confidence-inspiring images is "Alexander Nevsky" by P.D. Korina, personifying the unconquered proud spirit of the people. In this genre, towards the end of the war, there is a tendency for simulated drama.
War theme in painting
In the painting of the post-war period, ser. 1940 - end. In the 1950s, the theme of war as a moral and physical test, from which Soviet people emerged victorious, occupies a leading position in painting. Historical-revolutionary, historical genres are developing. The main theme of the everyday genre is peaceful labor, which was dreamed of during the long war years. The canvases of this genre are permeated with cheerfulness and happiness. The artistic language of the everyday genre becomes narrative and tends to be lifelike. In the last years of this period, the landscape also underwent changes. The life of the region is being revived in it, the connection between man and nature is being strengthened again, an atmosphere of tranquility appears. Love for nature is also praised in still life. An interesting development is received by the portrait in the work of various artists, which is characterized by the transfer of the individual. Some of the outstanding works of this period were: "A Letter from the Front" by A.I. Laktionova, a work like a window into a radiant world;
composition "Rest after the battle", in which Yu.M. Neprintsev achieves the same vitality of the image as A.I. Laktionov;
the work of A.A. Mylnikova "On Peaceful Fields", joyfully rejoicing at the end of the war and the reunification of man and labor;
the original landscape image of G.G. Nyssa - "Above the Snows" and others.
Harsh style to replace socialist realism
Art 1960-1980s is a new stage. A new "harsh style" is being developed, the task of which was to recreate reality without everything that deprives the work of depth and expressiveness and has a detrimental effect on creative manifestations. He was characterized by laconicism and generalization of the artistic image. The artists of this style glorified the heroic beginning of the harsh working days, which was created by the special emotional structure of the picture. The "harsh style" was a definite step towards the democratization of society. The main genre for which the adherents of the style worked was the portrait, and the group portrait, the genre of genre, the historical and historical-revolutionary genre was also developing. The prominent representatives of this period in the context of the development of the “severe style” were V. Popkov, who painted many self-portraits-paintings, V.I. Ivanov is a supporter of the group portrait, G.M. Korzhev, who created historical paintings. Revealing the essence of the "severe style" can be seen in the painting "Geologists" by P.F. Nikonov, "Polar explorers" A.A. and P.A. Smolinins, "Father's Overcoat" by V.E. Popkov. In the landscape genre, an interest in northern nature appears.
The symbolism of the era of stagnation
In the 1970s-1980s. a new generation of artists is being formed, whose art has influenced to some extent the art of today. They are characterized by symbolic language, theatrical entertainment. Their painting is quite artistic and virtuoso. The main representatives of this generation are T.G. Nazarenko ("Pugachev"),
a favorite theme of which was a holiday and a masquerade, A.G. Sitnikov, who uses metaphor and parable as a form of plastic language, N.I. Nesterova, creator of controversial paintings ("The Last Supper"), I.L. Lubennikov, N.N. Smirnov.
The Last Supper. N.I. Nesterova. 1989
Thus, this time appears in its diversity and diversity as the final, formative link of today's fine arts.
Our era has discovered a huge wealth of the picturesque heritage of previous generations. The contemporary artist is practically not limited by any framework that was defining, and sometimes even hostile to the development of the fine arts. Some of the contemporary artists try to adhere to the principles of the Soviet realistic school, someone finds themselves in other styles and directions. The tendencies of conceptual art, ambiguously perceived by society, are very popular. The breadth of artistic and expressive means and ideals that the past provided us must be rethought and serve as the basis for new creative ways and the creation of a new image.
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