Soviet Art

Soviet artist Kapitolina Rumyantseva (16 December 1925 – August 8, 2002)

Soviet artist Kapitolina Rumyantseva was born December 16, 1925 in Leningrad, the USSR. In 1945-1950 she studied at the Leningrad artistic and pedagogical school, workshops of G. Shakh, D. Ryazanskaya, V. Petrova, and M.Shuvaev. After graduation, in 1950-1969 she taught art in schools of Moscow and Vasileostrovsky districts of Leningrad. Since 1969, she worked as an artist of easel and monumental painting in the workshop of pictorial and decorative arts. Simultaneously, since the beginning of the 1950s she worked creatively, and mostly in the genre of landscape and still life. Since 1970 Kapitolina Rumyantseva participated in exhibitions. In 1973 she became a member of the Leningrad branch of the USSR Union of Artists.
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Rear to Front. Magnitogorsk. Authors – Soviet sculptor Lev Golovnitsky, architect – Yakov Belopolsky. Material – bronze, granite. Height – 15 meters

Soviet sculptor Lev Golovnitsky (10 December 1929 – 29 April 1994) – People’s Artist of the RSFSR, member of the USSR Academy of Arts, and laureate of the RSFSR State Prize of Repin. Golovnitsky worked in the style of socialist realism. His work reflects the prominent figures and important events of the Soviet state. Chelyabinsk sculptor is the author of monuments to Vladimir Lenin, “Eaglet” in Chelyabinsk, the monument “Rear – to front” in Magnitogorsk and many others. Today, without the works of the sculptor is hard to imagine Chelyabinsk and other cities of the South Urals.
Born December 10, 1929 in the city of Kurgan, already in 1932 three-year-old Lev and his family moved to Chelyabinsk. From an early age the boy showed interest in drawing. From 1944 to 1947 he worked in the art studio of the Palace of Pioneers named after Nadezhda Krupskaya.
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Classes in the gym of the Children Youth Sport school ‘Burevestnik’. 1961. Soviet graphic artist Oleg Vishnyakov (11 December 1935 – 2012)

Soviet graphic artist Oleg Vishnyakov (11 December 1935 – 2012) – Stalin Prize winner, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, the Union of Journalists of Russia and a member of the Board of the Union of Journalists of Moscow. Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR Union of Journalists (1987) for a series of works “The image of the contemporary.” Member of the Royal Academy of Cambodia. For two years he taught at the Moscow State Art Institute named after Surikov.
Oleg Vishnyakov was born December 11, 1935. In 1955 he graduated from the Moscow Art School. In 1955-1961 he studied at the Moscow State Art Institute named after VI Surikov (workshop of PD Pokarzhevsky). For success in studies he was awarded the Stalin Prize.
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The soldiers and guerrillas, going into battle. High relief of the monument to Mikhail Kutuzov in Moscow. Bronze, granite. 1973. Soviet sculptor Nikolay Tomsky (6 December 1900 – 22 November 1984)

Soviet sculptor Nikolay Tomsky (6 December 1900 – 22 November 1984) –
Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1949, Corresponding Member of 1947), People’s Artist of the USSR (1960), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1970). Laureate of Lenin (1972), five of Stalin (1941, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952) and the USSR State (1979) Prizes. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1950.
In human nature inherent desire for beauty. And art – one of the forms of human activity, revealing the most beautiful in life and especially in man. Such an understanding of the high purpose of art evolved in Tomsky for many years. He appealed to the image of the builder of the new society, the image of a Communist. As a student of the Higher School of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, he, a former peasant and a soldier, thought about the main theme of which he will work.
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Miners of Northern Urals. Soviet painter Mikhail Trufanov (November 22, 1921 – April 24, 1988)

Soviet painter Mikhail Trufanov (November 22, 1921 – April 24, 1988) – A member of the Leningrad Union of Artists (1952), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1963). Veteran of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), awarded the medal “For Courage”, “For Military Merit” and “For Victory over Germany”. Mikhail Trufanov painted portraits, genre and thematic paintings, landscapes, still lifes, as well as sketches from nature. But fame brought the picture of “Hearth” (1954). With a picture of “Hearth” and other works related the assertion in the Soviet art of the 1950s a new image of working man. And it was these works that embody the collective image of blast-furnace operators, miners, steelworkers, and brought the author a well-deserved recognition. His works are in the State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, Britain, France, USA, Italy and other countries.
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Working Morning. Oil painting by Soviet artist Mikhail Gavrilovich Belsky (November 21, 1922 – 1994)

Soviet artist Mikhail Gavrilovich Belsky (1922-1994) – Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1951), Honored Artist of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1970), and People’s Artist of Ukraine. Since 1951, Mikhail Belsky became a regular participant of republican, national and international exhibitions of Soviet Art. He worked in the field of easel painting. The main theme in the artist’s work – the theme of peaceful labor. In 1968 he made a creative trip to the mines of Donbas, where he completed 39 paintings and graphic works. All these works are included in the exposition of his first solo exhibition, which brought the artist All-Union recognition.
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Happy New Year! 1961, #1. Magazine Ogonyok New Year celebration chronicles

Magazine Ogonyok New Year celebration chronicles – vintage photographs of 1940-1960s taken during New Year’s Day celebration in the USSR. The smell of tangerines and a living Christmas tree, hissing champagne glasses and optimistic song from the TV, the taste of salad and a chocolates … Everyone remembers the celebrated New Year in the Soviet Union, all of these feelings are familiar. And the most important feeling: in the USSR the New Year celebration was much happier than it is today.
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