[Vladimir]

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Socialist realism in deynekovskom version really delicious. However, a retrospective honestly shows: Dejneka by and large was an artist with just one topic - Training and Sports. He was given great urban landscape: poluderevensky Kursk in 1920, Solar Sebastopol and Rome in 1930, Moscow in anti-tank hedgehogs and balloons defense in the first half of 1940, picturesquely bombed-out Vienna and Berlin - in the second. He has a wonderful, passing the landscape still life from the "dry leaves, elegant graphics, hatched, scratched on the handle of rotten paint brush. But his main interest - the human figure, preferably nude: wide hips, broad shoulders, strong calves, strong chest - kalokagatiyny ideal Soviet athlete. Under this ideal has been set up his system of painting, which was synthesized rodchenkovskuyu photograph of a fresco Quattrocento: angle, mounting the low point of view, the spot, silhouette, color asceticism, the dazzling whiteness - all to figure appeared monumental, full-length. The figure does not matter who: drummer labor, barefoot women textile or swarthy miner, both in production patterns time remains, homeland defense, as in the "Defense of Sevastopol", invader homeland, as lying next to the aerial gymnasts' Kills ace. But more often a football player, skier, runner, skater, swimmer and osoaviahimovtsa - mosaics in the subway station Mayakovskaya, in the frescoes of the Theatre of the Red Army, in stained glass, relief and round sculpture, which is a thoughtful poster Deineka flatly came out badly.

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It would seem an ideal base for more ambitious work that - in accordance with academic principles - from nude to go to the two main and mutually penetrating social realism genre: portraits and historical paintings. But the portrait was not his element: his wife, Parisian and other citizen - all on one person and different except that the color of hair, some - blondes, others - brunette. But the historical pattern does trouble. In ostovskuyu time he get out somehow: the song "The Defense of Petrograd" with the departing of the civil war Komsomol members had fought with the "Addresses of Jena students" Ferdinand Hodler, a picturesque political pamphlet, "Who whom?" mounted historical interest in the industrial landscape with a constructivist foremost production. But since the early 1940's, when avant-garde such liberties have been unthinkable, went kind of horror. Absurd "Zaporizzya" anecdotal "Battle of Amazons," where it is not clear that it is ridiculous: a girl with a hoe naked, her vicious mongrel, a guy in a Spartan helmet, poryuschy busty aunt with a sword by the pope, like hickory or common errors in anatomy. To think that the famous art critic of Mussolini, who called Deineko "true Roman," a little temper.

Because of this inability to tell a great heroic story about something other than football and Osoaviachima he did not become the first artist of the Stalinist era. Sport - he, of course, the world, but there is still war and other important matter. Golden deynekovsky century was brief: time triumphant, carefree and legkonogo Art Deco design station Mayakovskaya passed quickly. Apparently he himself understood, tormented, shortly before the pioneers of Khrushchev's "severe style" began to develop his achievements since the first five-year plans, fell into a marasmic pestrovaty impressionism.

Powerful artist, but very uneven. But "Knocked down Al - Strashko else.