This article Nikita Alexeev, in which he gives his views on the existence in Russia of pop art:
http://www.izvestia.ru/culture/article2715763/
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Nikita Alexeev
In the State Tretyakov Gallery in Krymsky Val just two exhibitions about pop art. If the exhibition "Andy Warhol: Artist of modern life" just about pop, the "Russian Pop Art" somewhat puzzling.
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The shadow of a doubt about the first exhibition is only the name: "the pontiff of pop art, died in 1986, during which time a lot has changed, and hardly the life that investigated this great artist, we are fully up to date. In other matters the same - an excellent retrospective exhibition. Things are very nice, axiomatic, but sorry that the exposition made in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Union as zonal exhibition in 1979, with a dull and horrible hanging light. "Russian Pop Art" intricate.
Pop Art emerged in the mid-50's in Britain and the United States, soon appeared to local variations in other Western countries. And in America, and Europe was to society in an era of standardized consumption. The ancestors of pop art in different ways, but equally ostranenno and cynical-ironic reacted to this new reality. In the USSR was nothing like this. In the early 60's against a background of total material shortages, we had something deceptively similar to pop art. Boris worked as Turkish, but the assemblages are similar to most painful works of the German Dadaists 10-20-ies - the memory of the war openly bleeding. Create the products, depicting the front door, a kerosene stove, a string bag with potatoes, impoverished showcase grocery or kitchen tiles, excellent Mikhail Roginsky. In trying to label him "the father of Russian pop-art" Roginskii fiercely resisted. In the late 60's - early 70's in the Soviet Union began to do something more akin to pop art. But because all gulped American canned tomato soup and washing laundry powder Heinz, and for the reason that Western art has become the reference material, which should have been my hands with soap "Strawberry", to compete by means of art, made at home.
Appeared a few artists who understand that the USSR is something no less intrusive and more terrible than Sampbell's Soup and Marilyn Monroe - Soviet ideological production: the slogans "Lenin is more alive and all the living", the Leaderboard, iconostasis with members of the Politburo and monuments placed on the expanses of the homeland. Arose due to Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, a social art, and under his influence, and in its different bringeth worked Leonid juices and Alexander Kosolapov, Boris Orlov, Rostislav Lebedev, and others. But was it related to pop art (though, at this exhibition Komar, Melamid no)? Even more questionable inclusion in the exhibition of early works by Ilya Kabakov and its lack of Erik Bulatov's paintings, done with the face of Brezhnev and the emblem of the Soviet Union almost the same as that Warhol - with a jar of tomato soup with a smile Monroe. Pop artists of these - the artists? Hardly, as Igor Shelkovsky, Ivan Chuikov, Igor Makarevich and other masters of the 70's. Pop Art was interested in them, but only as one of the possibilities of artistic freedom.