Soviet Art

Soviet artist Georgy Vereisky (1886 – 1962). Portrait of a sister. 1920

Soviet artist Georgy Vereisky (1886 – 1962) – People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1962), winner of the Stalin Prize of second degree (1946), Full member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1949). Georgy Semyonovich Vereisky created a series of lithographs – portraits of prominent Soviet contemporaries – artists, writers, and politicians. Among the most famous portraits – poet Anna Akhmatova (1929), ballerina GS Ulanova (1950), sculptor Konenkov (1954). Georgy Vereisky – master of graphic portrait and landscape (lithograph, etching, drawing). The artist of the Leningrad school of landscape painting, he has also created landscape and genre paintings.
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Cranberry. Gift of autumn. 2006. Painting by Soviet artist Gennady Daryin (1922 – 2012)

Soviet artist Gennady Daryin (1922 – 2012) – People’s Artist of Russia (2003), a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1954), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1978). Gennady Aleksandrovich Darin was born in the village of Ignatovo, Yaroslavl region. In 1938 he entered the Yaroslavl Art School. From 1941 to 1944 – a veteran of World War II, commander of an engineering platoon, then the engineer of the North-West and the 2nd Baltic front. He was seriously wounded, and after hospitalization expelled to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant. Daryin – Officer of the Order of Merit (with the achievements in the field of art) (1998), Commander of the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Red Banner, Order of the Patriotic war II degree. In 1951 he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Repin of Academy of Arts of the USSR, the workshop of People’s Artist of the USSR Professor B.V. Ioganson.
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About Friends in Arms. Self-portrait in the painting ‘A Farewell to Arms. May 9, 1945. Germany (1994-1999). canvas, oil. Soviet artist Alexey Belykh (b. 1923)

Soviet artist Alexey Belykh was born June 3, 1923 in the village of Krutets of Oryol Region. In 1958 he graduated from Moscow State Art Institute of Ilya Surikov, where the teachers of the young artist were Fyodor Reshetnikov and Viktor Tsyplakov. The last played an important role in the development of Belykh as a painter. In the workshop of Viktor Tsyplakov, Alexei Belykh defended his thesis “The first builders of Bratsk hydroelectric power station”, which was exhibited at the All-Union art exhibition “40 years of the Komsomol”. He taught at the Kostroma Art College (1958-1964) and Kostroma College of Education (1964-1983). Alexey Pavlovich Belykh – Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, Member of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR and USSR, the senior lecturer. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, Great Patriotic War I and II degree, the military medals, the Order “Badge of Honor”. Honorary citizen of Lozovaya (1990) and Kostroma (2001).
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90th anniversary of Lenin’s birth. 1960. Soviet medalist Nikolay Sokolov (December 28, 1892 – April 7, 1974)

Soviet medalist Nikolay Sokolov (December 28, 1892 – April 7, 1974) – sculptor, Honored Art worker of the RSFSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Since January 1, 1950 to June 1, 1971 – the main artist of the Leningrad Mint, author of many medals, including portraits of political and public figures of the Soviet Union. Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov was born in 1892. He studied at the Leningrad Institute of improvement of professional skill of art workers. In 1925-1926 he worked at the Leningrad Mint under the direction of F. Vasyutinsky. The talented sculptor-medalist, the author of numerous commemorative medals in a variety of materials, including bronze, silver, gold, Nikolai Sokolov, worked for many years on the image of the great leader Vladimir Lenin. The Government appreciated the contribution of the sculptor-medalist, awarding him the Order of Lenin. During the life of the Soviet medalist, in honor of his 70th anniversary was released Medal “NA Sokolov” (USSR, Leningrad Mint, 1962, medalist A.V.Kozlov).
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Soviet ballet dancer-artist Yuri Zhdanov (1925 – 1986) and Galina Ulanova in the ballet Romeo and Juliet, 1954

Soviet ballet dancer and artist Yuri Zhdanov (1925 – 1986) – member of Union of Artists of the USSR (1964), Peoples Artist of the RSFSR (1967).
Those Soviet viewers who saw the ballet Romeo and Juliet at the Bolshoi Theater, with the famous Galina Ulanova in the title role, can be called happy. Partner of Ulanova was Yuri Zhdanov, performing in the role of Romeo, hitting a brilliant technique, broad movements and high artistry. In those years, few people knew Zhdanov to be a talented painter. Many years later, Soviet ballet dancer and artist Yuri Zhdanov was not on the scene, but at the easel – in his studio, full of sketches, drawings, and paintings.
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Monument to Sergei Yesenin in Ryazan. Bronze, granite, 1975. Soviet sculptor Aleksandr Kibalnikov (August 9, 1912 – September 5, 1987)

Soviet sculptor Aleksandr Kibalnikov (August 9, 1912 – September 5, 1987) – People’s Artist of the USSR (1963), Laureate of Lenin (1959) and two Stalin Prizes of the second degree (1949, 1951), Full member of the USSR Academy of Arts. Member of the CPSU since 1963.
Once, visiting a workshop of Kibalnikov foreign guests asked its owner the following question: “Tell me, maestro, if you have a studio to display work?” And then the sculptor advised them to visit the capital’s Mayakovsky Square, to go to the Tretyakov Gallery, visit Brest, Saratov, Ryazan and other cities, where his monuments are installed… In fact, his works together with the works of artists of different generations are like a huge, constantly open to all art gallery. Today we can not imagine Moscow without monuments of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Pavel Tretyakov, Saratov without monuments of Lenin, NG Chernyshevsky, Ryazan – without the monument of Yesenin SA, Brest – without the memorial “Brest fortress”.
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Sad clown. Wooden sculpture, 1970. Soviet Sculptor Mikhail Smirnov (January 26, 1926 – January 10, 2011)

In Soviet art 1960-70-ies Mikhail Smirnov has a special place. The artist more closely than most of his contemporaries, was connected with the traditions of wooden sculpture. Masters of Permian Plastics, ST Konenkov and GI Motovilov played a great role in shaping him as a sculptor. The artist asserts human ideal, capable of strong feelings and actions. This embodied his dream of a harmonious personality, coupled with the nature loving people who know the price of a simple peasant labor. The ability in easy pose, in the expression of natural human movements capture the beauty of everyday life, distinguishes the sculptor. Sculptures of MN Smirnov – a poetic statement about the beauty of working people. Soviet artist Mikhail Smirnov (January 26, 1926 – January 10, 2011) – a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1952), Honored Artist of Russia (1976), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1983). Sculptures of MN Smirnov are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, more than 30 museums in Russia and former USSR republics, Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, France and England, as well as in private collections in the country and abroad.
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