Art totalitarian

[SAH]

That's true in all have to look for a good Samvel

[Vladimir]

Originally Posted by Eugene

Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA). According to the museum's founder Ray Johnson, who collected nearly 15,000 works of Russian art of the twentieth century, is the largest collection of Russian art outside Russia.
New museum building was inaugurated May 7, 2005 exhibition of works from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, the museum itself, as well as from private collections:
http://www.tmora.org/index.html__________________

Strangely, this Museum of Russian Art is virtually unknown in Russia. It may be interesting town. The site is little information on exposure, but a matter of respect, that is educational and scientific programs. That would look, but more information. We have no supporters in Minneapolis? Is there any chance to get a photo essay? http://www.tmora.org/current.html

I read that Johnson rewarded Putin

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday awarded the Medal of Friendship to a Minnesota art dealer whose collections led to the founding of the only museum in North America dedicated solely to Russian art from the Soviet era.

In a statement, the Kremlin and Putin praised Raymond E. Johnson for his work in "developing Russian-American cultural partnership and strengthening friendships between the people."

Johnson's collection of Soviet Realist art, which he began acquiring after the 1991 Soviet collapse, makes up the core of The Museum of Russian Art, which reopened in May at its new home in South Minneapolis following a US $ 5.5 million building project.

[Самвел]

http://www.art-7.com/http://www.ukraineart.com/collection.htm

[SAH]

Ukrainian Museum in New York http://ukrainianmuseum.org/ now show Burliuk

[fross]

Originally Posted by Samvel

.. all the good that was there could not disappear.

Not disappears, no - is destroyed.
And that you as a reminder - see what beautiful girls and my dear boy ...
How do you think of their killers were inclined to enjoy the arts?

[sss]

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 ?...

[Евгений]

Originally Posted by sss

I'm afraid, socialist realism, sooner or later will become the currency of post-Soviet space, when fashion will subside.

Normally sold, good tseny.Interes is only an incremental fashion .. no, just a nice painting and vse.Drugoe case in Russia art business in its infancy .., but that is another topic.
Catalogue: Russian Art (24 November)
http://browse.sothebys.com/?&cat=1&e...sian Paintings
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Catalogue: Russian Paintings (25 November)
  http://browse.sothebys.com/?&cat=1&e...sian Paintings
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November 25 will be sold excellent work of Mikhail Roginsky (wish a successful sale)
LOT 678
  MIKHAIL ROGINSKY
1931-2004
COMPOSITION
30,000-40,000 GBP
  197 by 148.5cm.

[dedulya37]

Originally Posted by Vladimir

We have no supporters in Minneapolis?

You need to search the art historian Mary Bulanov, it has information.

http://www.tmora.org/educationData/M...ova050511.html

[Самвел]

Originally Posted by fross

Do not disappears, no - is destroyed.
And that you as a reminder - see what beautiful girls and my dear boy ...
How do you think of their killers were inclined to enjoy the arts?
Miniatures

Not on. You better take a look at Iraq today and yesterday Chechnya, it will trenchant fact that you showed.

[SergeiSK]

Originally Posted by fross

Do not disappears, no - is destroyed.
And that you as a reminder - see what beautiful girls and my dear boy ...
How do you think of their killers were inclined to enjoy the arts?

Are you serious? Tell them that just were not in the mood, when such writing, otherwise the answer is simply bewildering to say the least ... Then, too, let's make an analogy, comparing the names of the leaders of the revolution, the names of Russian avant-garde artists and the name of the main killers of direct royal family ... From this comparison, the theme can be developed th-th!

Originally Posted by sss

I'm afraid, socialist realism, sooner or later will become the currency of post-Soviet space, when fashion will subside.

Better to be a currency, than to sink into oblivion, as happens with many of our contemporaries who are now fashionable and they all adore - "oh, this is a new word in art!"
Still Socialist Realism as an independent direction, there is not a momentary fashion, but in a separate slice of world culture, which existed in many countries, quite a decent time. And the fact that he was in the West is of little interest, so first time it there has not yet come, and why should the West be equal? Tastes of the West have been corrupted. The identity of the diversity and unifying the better! Well, that Russian well, the German death ..