Soviet Art

Christmas is coming. 1954. Soviet artist Oleg Dmitrievich Korovin 1915-2002

Soviet artist Oleg Dmitrievich Korovin (October 29, 1915 – February 19, 2002) – a member of the USSR Union of Artists (1940), a veteran of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), an Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Oleg Korovin was born in a village of Glinskoye, near Yekaterinburg of Perm province. In 1936, he graduated from the Perm Art College. After graduation he returned to Sverdlovsk. After the Great Patriotic War he worked in book publishing – first in Sverdlovsk, and after 1972 in Perm. Back in the late 1940s, he became interested in the work of a story teller Pavel Bazhov, and alongside with other artists, participated in the creation of illustrations for the book “Malachite Box” (1949). He became widely known after the release of the Ural tales of Bazhov “Malachite Box” (1952), and the anniversary edition of Pushkin’s “Poltava”.
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Fathers and sons. 1976. Oil on canvas. Soviet realist painter Alexey Yeryomin (March 17, 1919 – June 11, 1998)

Soviet realist painter Alexey Yeryomin (March 17, 1919 – June 11, 1998) is the representative of Soviet Art, and, in particular, the Leningrad school of painting. An honored Artist of RSFSR (1978), People’s Artist of the Russia (1970), member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, Alexey Yeryomin regularly participated in exhibitions since 1951. He painted genre and historical paintings, as well as portraits, landscapes, and sketches from nature. The leading theme of his creativity has become nature and people of the Russian North.
Soviet realist painter Alexey Yeryomin died June 11, 1998 in St. Petersburg. His works are kept at the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the numerous museums and private collections in Russia, Britain, China, Germany, Italy, Japan and other countries. His wife Irina Baldina survived her husband for ten years and died in St. Petersburg January 15, 2009.
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Morning of oil workers. Soviet Tatar artist Makhmut Usmanov (1918 – 2006)

Soviet Tatar artist Makhmut Usmanov (1918 – 2006) – Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1947), Honored Artist of Tatarstan (1975), People’s Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1980), Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1999). Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, holder of the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, the Red Star. He lived and worked in Kazan. In the early 1950s, he was one of the first in the Soviet art to open the “oil” theme. He was looking for different approaches to the scenic disclosure of the topic: tried genre and narrative, sometimes lyrically sentimental decision (“Morning of Tatarstan oil”), and group portraits, as well as a lot of field studies.
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First days of October. 1929-1930. Soviet realist artist Georgy Savitsky (October 23, 1887 – August 13, 1949)

Soviet realist artist Georgy Savitsky (October 23, 1887 – August 13, 1949)
After the October Socialist Revolution, Georgy Savitsky headed the decorative workshop of the Petrograd Military District (1918-1922). He became one of the founders and ideologists of the revolutionary Russian Artists Association (AHRR), and a member of the Society of realist artists. At the end of the 1930s Savitsky worked on dioramas and panoramas (“Storm of Perekop”, 1934-38), battle scenes, and large panels for pavilions of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition.
During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1942) the artist took an active part in the production of short-run stencil posters “TASS Windows”, and was a member of the editorial board. Georgy Savitsky became the winner of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1942) for political posters and caricatures in “Windows of TASS”. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1942), Member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1949). He taught at the Moscow Art Institute (1947-1949).
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The sailor of the Baltic Fleet. 1950-ies. Soviet painter Andrey Sergeyevich Bantikov (23 October 1914 – 11 December 2001)

Soviet painter Andrey Sergeyevich Bantikov (23 October 1914 – 11 December 2001) – Member of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1997), participant of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), member of the Military Artists Studio of Mitrofan Grekov (1952-1963). Andrey Bantikov worked in the genre of historical and battle paintings, portraits and landscapes. He participated in exhibitions of Soviet Art since 1939. Member of the Great Patriotic War, Bantikov after demobilization taught at the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art named after Vera Mukhina (1948-1951).
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The award-winning teacher. Socialist realism painter Nina Veselova (18 January 1922 – 3 March 1960)

Socialist realism painter Nina Veselova (18 January 1922 – 3 March 1960) – Soviet artist, Candidate of Arts (1954), a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists of the RSFSR (1950). She painted portraits, genre and thematic compositions, landscapes, and still lifes. A talented portraitist and painter, her favorite genre was portrait-painting with a developed plot basis. Among the works created by Veselova in less than ten years of her short creative life, many of her paintings have become true classics of Soviet art, that have withstood the test of time.
Veselova was born January 6, 1922 in Petrograd. In 1934, after participating in the contest of young talents, Veselova entered the Art School of the Russian Academy of Arts, from which she graduated in 1941. The same 1941 she became the first course student of painting faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
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Timiryazev Prospect. Tomsk Art Museum. Canvas, oil. Soviet artist Yakov Yakovlevich Panov 1919-1996

Soviet artist Yakov Yakovlevich Panov 1919-1996

Life is like a river, with the steep banks, black slough, shimmering water on a sunny day. Could peasant’s son Yasha Panov have thought, that in some years he would have become an artist? And after he had lived 77 years, gone from this world, he would be remembered? About him write articles, his paintings decorate art galleries and museums. Yakov spent difficult but happy life. He belonged to a generation that had gone through a lot of testing: hard work from dawn to dusk, a terrible war, devastation …. Despite inhuman hardships, these people blamed no one, and did not complain – they were Soviet people. Among these people was Yakov Panov – a person and an artist. Panov was born October 9, 1919 in the village of Chainsky District. In 1930 he joined the commune “Lighthouse” in the village of Svetlyanka. His father father Yakov Pavlovich was a blacksmith and collective farm beekeeper.
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