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“Nu” in Soviet style: How many are asked today for the social realism of Alexander Deineka on the global art market?
After the teleconference in 1986, Leningrad – Boston, the whole world is finding out that there is nothing forbidden in the USSR, what happens between a man and a woman, and this phrase has become widely used in Russia for defining anti-sexuality culture in the Soviet era. But was it really so … Was it true that chaste art was at a time when social realism dominated? Looking at the pictures of the famous classic of the Soviet art, which had numerous titles and regalia – Alexander Deineka – you can’t say it. The artist has dedicated the lion’s share of his works to the “nude” genre. Continue reading
Fascinating pictures of Armenians in love with the Russian north
An artist with an exotic Russian ear named Janna Tutunjan was born in the heart of Russia – in Moscow in the autumn of 1931. No one could have imagined that a talented graduate of the Surikov Art Institute would decide to take and go to her husband’s home country, to the village of the Vologda region. And that it is life in the village — more precisely, the way Gianna will capture it in her drawings and paintings — she will glorify Tutunjan and the land of Vologda. Continue reading
