Soviet Art

Crows. Cardboard, oil. 1970s. Soviet artist Anatoly Yudin (1925-1999)

Soviet artist Anatoly Yudin was born August 2, 1925 in the village of Studentsy, Samara Province, the USSR. An amateur artist, Anatoly did not receive formal art education, but this did not prevent him from becoming a member of the USSR Union of Artists in 1973. Craving for painting has appeared in childhood, and never left him throughout life. The most serious artistic training became lessons under the guidance of prominent Soviet artist Konstantin Yuon in Moscow graphic studio for invalids of the Great Patriotic War (1944 – 1950). Genre of painting in which the artist worked – landscape and portrait. In 1950-75 he lived in Kuibyshev, and in 1975 – 1999 – lived and worked in Leninogorsk, Tatarstan.
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Lenin theme in paintings of Boris Lebedev

Lenin theme in paintings of Boris Lebedev

The main theme in the works of Soviet artist Boris Lebedev (1910-1997) – Lenin. People’s Artist of the RSFSR, member of the USSR Union of Artists, Honored and National Artist of Russia, Boris Ivanovich Lebedev was born on August 1, 1910. After graduating from the Saratov art school in 1929, he worked in the newspaper “Pravda of South Kazakhstan”, “Soviet dirizhablist” on the “Diafilm” factory, in the “Komsomolskaya Pravda”. From the “Komsomolskaya Pravda” has come to the Penza regional newspaper. He lived and worked in Penza. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Boris headed the art department. His sharp political caricatures of the Nazi rulers and warriors, full of sarcasm, sharp as a soldier’s bayonet, operated flawlessly.
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“Happy Birthday, Filipp Danilovich!”. 1975. Painting by Soviet artist Ivan Ivanov-Sakach (August 2, 1926 – March 2, 1985)

Soviet artist Ivan Ivanov-Sakach – Leningrad school painter, who had a bright and recognizable style of painting characteristic of Soviet Art of 1970s. Ivan was born August 2, 1926 in Stavropol province, the USSR. In early childhood, left orphan, he was adopted by a family friend, I.K. Ivanov, whom the artist considered his father and whose name in appreciation was later added to the native. In 1944 he was drafted into the army and took part in the war against Japan and the liberation of Korea. He fought in the Far Eastern Front, Sergeant, radio telegraphist. Ivan was awarded medals “For Victory over Germany”, “For Victory over Japan”, “For Military Merit”, “For the liberation of Korea.” In the 1950 – 1955 Ivan studied at the Art School in Krasnodar. In 1956, after finishing the art school, he entered the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Academy of Arts of the USSR.
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Soviet artist Boris Okorokov (1933 – 2005). The Soviet-Czechoslovak crew. 1978

Soviet artist Boris Okorokov (1933 – 2005) – Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1960), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1982). All-Union fame to Boris Okorokov brought work on the military theme, and the theme of space – “Frontier” (1963), “Interceptors” (1966), “Goodbye Earth” (1970), which were reproduced in many printed editions of the Soviet era. His works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin Museum of Russian Art in Kiev, Donetsk Art Gallery, Dnepropetrovsk art gallery, Kemerovo Art Museum, the Central Museum of Armed Forces (Moscow), the other major museums of the former USSR. His works are in museums and private collections in Russia, Ukraine, England, Holland, Hungary, Czech Republic, USA, France, Poland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Montenegro, Cyprus and others.
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Soviet artist Oleg Savostyuk, B. Uspensky. Poster from the series Moscow – capital of the Peace and Labor. 1978

Soviet artist Oleg Savostyuk gave a lot of strength and energy to a genre of political poster. The artist also enthusiastically engaged in easel painting. In the autumn days of 1941 as a schoolboy, Savostyuk worked on the construction of defensive structures near Moscow. Once at the end of the house, he saw a huge poster “The Motherland Calls!”. He was struck by the work of Irakli Toidze, its complete fusion with the appearance of Moscow in war time… But in those years Oleg Savostyuk probably did not think about the poster artist profession. He had many other hobbies – studied music, was interested in theater arts, was drawn to the sport. Subsequently, these passions are reflected in his work. And then, when he was still young and gifted painter, he graduated from the Moscow Art School. And in 1947 – when he entered the Surikov Institute, – there was no doubt that he will be the artist. He studied at the institute in the workshop of the famous Soviet graphic Mikhail Cheremnykh. The teacher drew with his own example, the prospect of being always at the forefront of life.
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Soviet Russian sculptor Andrey Balashov. Portrait of Aguilyar (participant of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, the USSR). Gypsum. 1985

Soviet Russian sculptor Andrey Balashov – Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1984), Winner of the All-Union, All-Russian and international competitions on monumental art, Lenin Komsomol Prize winner (1988). Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honored Artist of Russia (1997). Andrey Vladimirovich Balashov was born June 13, 1957 in the village of Malakhovka of Moscow region. He was first introduced to the art of sculpture in the local House of Pioneers. Prior to that, he painted landscapes with a variety of characters, buildings, trees, and cats – favorite animals, something similar to humans. Thus formed his addiction, acute, sensitive attitude towards the world. His art teacher N. Karmanov sought to give the pupils an idea of ​​the different types of art and taught them to see the most meaningful, valuable in life. After art school Andrey studied at the Surikov Institute, in the workshop of a prominent Soviet sculptor MF Baburin.
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Lenin in his office. 1956. Painting by Soviet artist Vasily Nechitailo (1915 – 1980)

Soviet artist Vasily Nechitailo (1915 – 1980) – Member of the USSR Academy of Arts, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, and Laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR. He was awarded the Silver Medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. In 1942 Nechitailo graduated from the Moscow State Art Institute of Surikov, where his teacher was an outstanding Soviet artist Sergei Gerasimov.
Creativity of Nechitailo left a bright trace in the history of Soviet art. All-Union fame to the artist brought such paintings as “The first furrow”, “To the collective farm club”, “Collective farm youth”, “Lyuba – postwoman”, “Bread to Motherland”, and “For Soviet power.” More than 70 works of the Soviet artist Vasily Nechitailo are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum and museums of the former USSR. In Salsk, his hometown, there is an art gallery of his name and a monument in his honor.
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