Soviet Art

Rabfak (Students workers) are going. 1928. Oil on canvas. Soviet artist Boris Ioganson 1893-1973

Prominent Soviet artist Boris Ioganson 1893-1973
In Soviet Art, pictures by Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson were considered exemplary, perfectly relevant to the principles of socialist realism. Boris Ioganson was a citizen-artist, artist-Communist, and advocate of the art of socialist realism. Hero of Socialist Labor, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, twice winner of the State Prize of the USSR, People’s Artist of the USSR, academician. In 1958-1962 he was the President of the USSR Academy of Arts, in 1965-1968 – the first secretary of the USSR Union of Artists, and in addition, he found time to raise and teach our artistic youth.
“The people – the hero and the creator of history. To show deeds of our people – the honorable duty of artists, from whom the Soviet viewer expects paintings, raising the whole people’s topics, themes of great public sound.” Boris Ioganson
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Village festival. 1950s, fragment. Soviet artist sculptor Evgeny Rastorguev (1920 – 2009)

Soviet artist sculptor Evgeny Rastorguev
An honored Artist of Russia, a member of the USSR Union of Artists (1953), Evgeny Rastorguev was born into a family of teachers in the village of Nikolo-Pogost of Nizhny Novgorod region. In 1940 he graduated from the Gorky Art School, and immediately began to participate in exhibitions of Soviet art. 1941-1945 – participant of the Great Patriotic War. In 1941, he became a military cartographer, and later worked in the front newspaper, participated in the erection of the first memorial museum of the Second World War – the architectural memorial complex “Svir victory”. After the war, in 1946, he enters the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin in Leningrad, and then transferred to the Moscow State Art Institute named after VI Surikov. He studied in the workshop of SV Gerasimov. In 1953, on the recommendation of his teacher, SV Gerasimov, he was admitted to the Union of Artists. Rastorguev was a member of the famous “Group of 16”.
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Favorite flowers and expensive reward. 1989. Soviet textile artist Gleb Aleksandrovich Belyshev (June 29, 1922 – January 13, 2016)

Soviet textile artist Gleb Aleksandrovich Belyshev (June 29, 1922 – January 13, 2016) – a member of the USSR Union of Artists (1957), and Cavalier of the Order of Red Banner of Labor in 1971 for the decoration of fabrics. Belyshev – a veteran of World War II, has war medals “For Courage”, “For Victory over Germany”, the Order of “Patriotic War” II degree, and commemorative medals. Since 1962, Gleb Belyshev was the chief designer of Barnaul cotton mill and the founder of the artistic textile Altai school. During his work at the cotton mill, under the guidance of the master, were created about 2000 drawings for calico and satin, which gained recognition not only in the Soviet Union, but also at the international exhibitions in Brussels, Paris, and Leipzig.
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Still life with red fish. 1985. Soviet Tatar still life painter Rushan Yakupova

Soviet Tatar still life painter Rushan Yakupova (born 1928) – Member of the Artists’ Union of Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Honored Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Colorful still life paintings created by Rushan Yakupova as if filled with the aroma of ripe melons, peaches and grapes. Apples, as if plucked from a branch and carefully laid out on the table next to the colorful bouquets of her favorite lilacs and peonies.
Rushan Yakupova was born in 1928 in the village of Kyzyl Mosque of Orenburg region, the USSR. She graduated from the department of painting on porcelain of Dulevo artistic and vocational school, and in 1953 the Kazan Art School.
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Happiness of youth. (Iosif Stalin with children) Soviet artist Fyodor Vasilievich Antonov (1904 – 1994)

Soviet artist Fyodor Vasilievich Antonov (1904 – 1994) – Professor (1957), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1966), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1975).
Fyodor Antonov was born in the city of Tambov. After high school, in 1916 – 1921 he studied at the Art College in Tambov. Then he studied at the Higher Art and Technical Studios in Moscow (1922-1929), in the workshops of S.V. Gerasimov, A. Arkhipov and D. Scherbinsky. He was a member of the Society of Easel Artists “OST” (1927-1932), and his friends were prominent Soviet painters Alexander Deineka and Yuri Pimenov. In 1931 he participated in the establishment of a panel “industrial community” (fresco on the design of A. Deineka) for the building of the People’s Commissariat of land in Moscow. Fyodor Antonov – author of genre paintings devoted to the Soviet youth. He taught at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (MIPIDI) and Moscow State Textile Institute, professor of painting.
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Surf. End of 1950. Soviet graphic artist Viktor Bibikov (31 October 1903 – 1973)

Soviet graphic artist Viktor Bibikov (31 October 1903 – 1973) – Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1932), participant of the Great Patriotic War, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1955).
Viktor Sergeyevich Bibikov was born October 31, 1903 in the village of Dushenovo, Moscow Province. He studied at the Art School at Sytinskaya printing, which led IN Pavlov and S. Gerasimov. Great influence on the creative development of the artist had NA Sheverdyaev.
In 1920-1925 Viktor Bibikov served in the Red Army. In 1930 he graduated from the art courses of Central Association of Revolutionary artists (teachers Mashkov and Karpov).
Since 1929 a participant of Soviet Art exhibitions. In 1930, on the recommendation of the Board of Revolutionary Artists Association begins to take lessons from IN Pavlov. Participated in art associations – Youth Association of Revolutionary Artists and the Association of Artists of the revolution, and became a member of the USSR Union of Artists (1932).
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Self-portrait. Soviet artist Irina Nikolaevna Popova (October 31, 1923 – July 7, 1988)

Soviet artist Irina Nikolaevna Popova – a member of the Moscow branch of the USSR Union of Artists (1958), the daughter of a famous painter Nikolay Popov (1890-1953). Irina Popova was born in Moscow on October 31, 1923. In 1940-1943 she studied at the Moscow Art School in memory of 1905, in the workshops of V.N. Baksheyev and L.I. Aronov. In 1943-1950 she studied at the Faculty of Painting of the State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov, workshop of S.V. Gerasimov, diploma painting – “Combat Mission”. Since 1951, continuously participated in Moscow, republican and all-Union exhibitions of Soviet Art.
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