Artists 20-ies - that neither the name, the original style. Even the highly political work - this is first what is called "art", and then you politokraska.
In the period of socialist realism - the exact opposite. Two or three charismatic personalities, destroys himself in devotional service, everything else - averaged a strong media skills, at best. Socialist realism can be grateful for the fact that he kept school, and was blamed for the fact that spawn mediocrity.
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specify at once to the Socialist Realism of disgust did not entertain, if the job's done well - it is already worthy of consideration, but all too often in works of this period there first "SOC", and then the "realism" and a lot of what is called stamp.
I do not know, maybe that is my purely personal feelings, but when I hear the term "Russian Avant-Garde" - pop up any specific names, but when the "socialist realism" - collective farm chairmen, I., BAM ... and after all this - the mass of anonymous authors united by a common idea and style.
Yes, there are wonderful still lifes, landscapes, etc., even the chairmen of collective farms, but rather in spite of than because of.
All that is more or less artistic, sounds like a protest.
What is more seditious thing. Socialist realism and the realism of the Soviet period - not only the red banners of Lenin, the farmers and the Council of Commissars, it is also planting the most realistic manner of writing, by killing that fit in the capacious concept of "formalism».
Socialist realism as Russia's contribution to world art ...
Recently, leafing through old magazines, "Creativity" and "Decorative Arts", so did not find much difference between the Bulgarian, Polish, Hungarian and German social realism, and if talking about the Nazi realism 30-40-ies, then with our socialist realism - blood brothers.
Try without politics, without a "Socialist".
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The realism of the Soviet period as Russia's contribution to world art ...
But what distinguishes the "normal, classical, academic zhivipis 1930-1960gg" from the same painting 70-80's? or 90-2000-ies? Number of banners and milkmaids?
Do not politicize Socialist Realism, as we are not succeeding, and if we talk about just realism, so it was until 30-ies.
Often dealing with Lithuanian cultural figures, I hear talk about the great Lithuanian painting, which was and is - look at albums and not see. What is catching the eye - is still Soviet, ie firmly made, no more. The Great Lithuanian school of painting - a currency for internal circulation on the territory of Lithuania. Outside - a fiction.
I'm afraid, socialist realism, sooner or later will become the currency of post-Soviet space, when fashion will subside. Fashion is not only a political nature ... .. When sprinkled around the canvases of paint buckets and store the bulls, the ability to paint with a strong demonstration of skill - is a phenomenon. But to be relevant and influential - not the same.
Socialist realism is interesting as time cross-section of more than Art, where us more than they (on the investment attractiveness of not talking . This is - another story).
So that may be, the Frenchman Olivier Sen says not quite stupid ?...