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Art After Stalin’s Death

Carter Ivey

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Propaganda

• Propaganda was a major part of the arts in Russia, with the main function of portraying the country as a unified powerhouse

• Often showed the ideal Russian citizen… according to Stalin of course

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• The country was at war, politically with the whole world

• This piece was created with the purpose of glorifying Stalin

• Stalin’s favorite propaganda artist was Boris Yefimov, who died in 2008 at 108, old enough to have seen the last czar, Nicholas II in person, become friends with Trotsky, have Stalin personally

edit his cartoons and vote for Vladimir Putin. He was so despised by Hitler that Hitler famously said he personally wanted to shoot him. He worked over 70 years and created over 70,000 drawings

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• Furiously Patriotic and often times antifascist, paintings were made to solidify the Russian people as a united force

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Other Forms Of Art under Stalin

• Propaganda was not the only other type of art under Stalin, however these other forms were highly censored

• These styles included: Primitivism, Hyperrealism, Grotesque, and Abstraction, most often in the name of socialism

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• Socialist Realism’s main goal was to push for the cause of the Soviet Party’s ideals

The Moscow Manege

• A beautiful building with avant-garde pieces of art, this existed during the time of Stalin

• When Khruschev visited this gallery, he called it (translated from Russian), Dog S***

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After Stalin, Focus on the People

• This marked a rise in paintings about local heroes, such as scientists, scholars, and civil engineers

• Here you see Sputnik

Mid-1960’s

• Legacies of great artists and art movement became open for public discussion and practice, which led to the broadening of understanding of realism, especially relating to nature, as well as expressionism

Timkov’s Russian Winter

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Expressionism

• Big move towards liberalist ideals in Russian culture, as Expressionism allows for the artists interpretation

BIBLIOGRAPHY• Gordon A. Craig, Europe Since 1914 (New York: Dryden, 1962), 756-757.

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• The Russian Art Gallery. “Classics of Soviet Art.” Last Modified 2006. http://www.russianartgallery.org/famous/soviet.html

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