1954 album Virgin lands by Soviet artists
Painting by Soviet artist V.Ya. Gonchar. To the virgin lands. 1954 album Virgin lands by Soviet artists
1954 album Virgin lands by Soviet artists
Modern, in particular in 1954, the theme of developing virgin and fallow lands could not but attract the thoughts and feelings of Soviet artists. To reflect in the realistic artistic images the beauty and greatness of the work of the Soviet patriots on virgin lands and to contribute to this victory was one of the important tasks of Soviet art.
Many artists showed a deep interest in a grandiose development on the virgin lands, which began on the call of the Communist Party in the spring of 1954 in Kazakhstan, Siberia, and the southern Urals. Artists who visited the virgin lands in the first days and months of its developing, plunged into the thick of a difficult life. They saw how, overcoming difficulties, the Soviet people turned huge spaces of untouched land into fertile fields.
Having lived side by side with tractor drivers, agronomists, geodesists, and workers of other professions who voluntarily gathered from different parts of the socialist homeland, the artists saw the heroic days of developing the virgin lands closely.
Some of these sketches and paintings were shown at the All-Union Art Exhibition in 1954 and at an exhibition in the Palace of Culture of the I.V. Stalin. The publishing house “Soviet Artist”, having selected a part of the works, published the album “Etudes, pictures from virgin land” – works by artists in the spring and summer of 1954.
I.I. Vitman. Friends. Omsk region. Etude. 1954 album Virgin lands by Soviet artists
1954 album Virgin lands by Soviet artists
A.P. Polyushenko. The virgin steppe
E.I. Samsonov. To the New Lands
I.D. Abramov. Evening on the virgin soil. Kazakhstan
I.I. Vitman. On the virgin land
Tractor driver V.T. Novikov. The Omsk Region. Etude. Artist I.I. Vitman
I.M. Novoseltsev. Noon in the field camp
L.S. Rabinovich. Milkmaid, a member of Komsomol Yaitsa Akhmetova. Russko-Polyansky State Farm. The Omsk Region. Etude
Artist L.S. Rabinovich. Plowed virgin soil. The Omsk Region. Etude
Postman, Moskow Komsomol member N. Churenin. The Omsk Region. Etude. Artist L.S. Rabinovich
M.I. Tkachev. Have arrived. South Urals. Drawing
Song. Southern Urals. Drawing. M.I. Tkachev
M.K. Anikeev. Evening rest. Kazakhstan. Etude
N.N. Chebakov. Chairman of the collective farm. Altai. Etude
Milkmaid A.I. Shatalina. Altai region. Etude by N.N. Chebakov
Surveyors are having dinner. Altai region. Etude by N.N. Chebakov
The mechanic of the state farm Altai Zavozov. N.N. Chebakov
N.N. Zolotarev. Drilling a well. The Omsk Region. Etude
Etude by N.N. Zolotarev. Flowers in the tent. The Omsk Region
Soviet artist P.A. Smolin. The first days on the virgin land. Kazakhstan. Etude
P.A. Smolin. Meeting of tractor drivers. Kazakhstan. Etude
P.I. Rozin. Portrait of the shepherd Maria Chitpanova. Altai
Portrait of Valentina Fedyanina, brigadier of the Komsomol women’s tractor brigade. Altai. P.I. Rozin
R.N. Galitsky. Before dinner. Kazakhstan. Etude
In the evening after work. Kazakhstan. R.N. Galitsky
R.V. Slyotov. Field trailer. Altai. Etude
For practice to the virgin lands. R.V. Slyotov
S.I. Dudnik. Portrait of Brigadier Shepherd Kara Ulankina. Altai
Maria Palkina, secretary of the Komsomol committee of the kolkhoz ’12 years of October ‘. Altai. Artist S.I. Dudnik
V.F. Stozharov. Brigadier of the tractor brigade N. Kalyagin. Kazakhstan. Pavlodar region. Etude
Camels. Kazakhstan. Etude. V.F. Stozharov
Dinner. Kazakhstan. Etude. V.F. Stozharov
On the virgin land in Kazakhstan. V.F. Stozharov
V.N. Basov. Awakened steppe
First shoots. Altai. Etude. V.N. Basov
V.S. Zakharkin. Collective farm agronomist. Kazakhstan. Etude
Painting by V.S. Zakharkin Tractor driver. Kazakhstan. Etude
