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[Игорь Гурьев]

Here he writes , " Artinvestment " in the article:

The President of South Africa sued the artist who created his controversial portrait of

This week in South Africa broke out a loud scandal Art with a political tinge, split the observers into two irreconcilable camps.
It all started with the fact that a large art gallery Goodman in Johannesburg included in the exhibition of the artist Brett Murray (Bratt Murray) he created a portrait of the current President Jacob Zuma (Jacob Zuma). Portrait depicts the president in a majestic pose in flowing robes - in the spirit of propaganda posters , and its free color scheme resembles the work of Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol).

Comrades , well, what have the Warhol ?

The picture is a redrawing of the famous Soviet poster , the author is too well known , and, as it seemed to me , all , absolutely everything.

What, however , the author of an article by M. Estrova not know who the author of the Soviet poster ?

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I would like to draw attention to his comrades as well hand painted by Vladimir Lenin.
Right , that is exhibited in the air and down.

In this connection, recalled the episode in the biography of Viktor Semenovich Ivanov, the author of this poster , I have read in ancient times , in the book about him by an unknown author .

When Victor S. at the end of the 1930s did type in a Leningrad Art College (and perhaps also to the Academy of Fine Arts who wish to let the check ), then the entrance exam was quite difficult given them job applicants .

We had to draw from memory linked hands.

And Viktor Semenovich done this job and was accepted into the ranks .

It has always been such an American glamor , almost Hollywood , but certainly pre- Warhol .