Probably. That's just why? Circulation look? And it was a very specific life: postcards Vasiliev, slides Salvador Dali (family viewing, such a revelation), the exhibition Glazunov after huge queue ...

Funny, how he flattened body.
Just an anecdote.

In general, Comrade. Konstantin Vasilyev his creativity embodied the ideology of National Bolshevism, which bloomed to full flower in the 1970's.

His and Ogonyok published in 1970, and copies were either healthy this journal.

I remember my horror when I saw his prints on the pages of Brezhnev Ogonek.

To say that this is kitsch - is praise.
Kitsch at least not antichelovechen.
In no kitsch inhumanity.

Well, yes, the horror and calculated. At the subconscious acts .:) this (for this) and use "syurnyaka" (a little). Among the Slavic stylization is, of course, alone. After all, Vasnetsov, Bilibin, or ED Polenova horror not cause - berries, shrubs, flowers, "Berendeevka + epic distance. And K. Vasilyeva solid "Triumph of the Will." The voltage of the confrontation and conquest. Most Germanic attitude. But with all its charms - a heavy mystical cult of Wotan (vaguely remember gallows, dead ancestors, warriors, and their cult, and so Nibelungen cm) Again, Brunnhilde and other heroic Valkyrie .:) "This Video ideology as a Slavic could be used for the presentation of Russia's foreign policy under Yaroslav the Wise (for Europe). Only in the 11 century. But after Yaroslav Varangian ideology diminished, assimilated, the Germanic God (weather) disappeared, remained Slavic God.
As with the imaging system crosses found the classics of Russian art 19 century national identity (see inlay of the Historical Museum, for example, or the Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev). He (Style) do not fight, but primarily agricultural. And if the Warriors, the defenders of the land and faith. But not the aggressors.
But the artistic taste of it, of course, changed. To me, both at the same level of taste with black caviar in a gold frame.

Moreover, around his name for many years some stirring occur. I remember some sensational exhibition many years ago, the museum of its events any. I have not penetrated, because no interest, but, as stated in the hearing.
Wow, Cyril! Somehow, I always considered him a kind of provincial self-taught artist with a tragic fate, risuyuschim images a la Russe. Well, not like it, fine. A self-portraits - is another matter. Now behold the dead masks were understandable. What a spooky!

And pioneers.