Soviet Art

Soviet graphic artist Zinaida Lapshina (b. 1946). Glory to the Soviet woman – worker. Poster. 1975

Soviet graphic artist Zinaida Lapshina was born in 1946 in Moscow. She graduated from Moscow State Art Institute named after Surikov in 1971. Zinaida Lapshina studied at the workshop of NA Ponomarev, M. Savostyuk, BA Uspensky. She was awarded the first prize for the poster “Glory to the Soviet woman-worker” at the National competition of the poster “the Soviet people – active builders of communist society” (1974). Constantly working on propaganda posters, she became a Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR in 1974. Her major works: “My concern and care will bring great income!” (1970), “Red Devils” (1974), “October” (1974), “Glory to the woman-toiler!” (1975), “Dedicate Labor achievements to the XXV Congress of the CPSU”(1975), “Flourish, my motherland”(1976), “Flourish and grow, our scientific cities!”(1976), “We will build solar cities” (1976), “We – the masters of our country!” (1979).
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Goalkeeper training. 1976. Gouache on paper. Soviet artist Andrey Lopatin (born 1951)

Early works of Soviet artist Andrey Lopatin were first featured in the illustrated album “Youth of country” published to the 60th anniversary of Komsomol, in 1978. The embodiment of youth, health, and strength of the athletes was characteristic for the paintings of A.R. Lopatin – “Goalkeeper Training”, “Morning Running”. Andrey Rostislavovich Lopatin – Honored Artist of Russia, member of the Commission for the Creative Union of Graphic Artists of Russia, director of the House of creativity “Chelyuskinskaya”. Soviet artist Andrey Lopatin was born in 1951 in Moscow, the USSR. He graduated from Moscow State Art Institute of Surikov (1975), studied at workshops of MV Motorin, EA Kibrik, NL Voronkov. Already in the early works of Andrei Lopatin there has been interest in the genre compositions.
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Self-Portrait with a mask. Oil. 1943. Soviet Armenian artist Martiros Saryan (1880 — 1972)

Soviet Armenian artist Martiros Saryan
According to the artist himself, in his long life, he experienced a lot of grief and a lot of fun. He witnessed two world wars, and fought against the worst enemy of mankind – fascism. In the Soviet Army in the Great Patriotic War fought his son. The artist has painted dozens of portraits of war heroes. Saryan lived through the death of his beloved son, the death of many of his paintings. I do not know the artist more sunny than Martiros Saryan. And the bright, sparkling view of the world, a striking sense of light and color and love for his native Armenia, he had inherited from his parents, because he was born and raised in Russia. He studied painting in Moscow in the workshops of Soviet Russian artists Serov and Korovin, and only as an adult, twenty-year-old, he first visited the homeland of their ancestors – Armenia. And became sick of this country forever. Despite the fact that he had to go to Cairo and in the sultry and mysterious Tehran and multifaceted Constantinople, lived and worked in the Mecca of artists – Paris, he has always been irresistibly drawn to his homeland.
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Soviet artist Alexander Laktionov. Letter from the front, 1947

Soviet artist Alexander Laktionov – Academician of the USSR Academy of Arts (1958), Corresponding Member (1949), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1969), laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1948) and the RSFSR State Prize of Repin (1971). Laktionov was a versatile artist, he was equally good at genre paintings, portraits and landscapes. Actually, it would be enough for him even one painting to remain forever in the history of painting, and in the country’s history. When his painting of 1947 “Letter from the Front” appeared on the show, there was an amazing event, which for a long time did not know Russian art. To a large exhibition, many viewers came for one picture. To it was devoted more than half of entries in the exhibition guest book. Soon the picture took place at the Tretyakov Gallery, the artist received the Stalin Prize for it, and its reproduction dispersed throughout the country, making name of Laktionov well-known.
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Soviet fashion model Mila Romanovskaya in London at the Soviet exhibition next to the mock of the spacecraft Voskhod. August 1968

In 1967 Soviet fashion model Mila Romanovskaya won the title of “Miss Russia” at the international fashion show. Famous soviet actor Andrei Mironov was in love with her, and outstanding Russian Soviet director Nikita Mikhalkov fought for her. She was the wife of the artist Yuri Cooper and friend of Joseph Brodsky. And she is a woman of her time, who independently built her own life. Exactly at the moment when she decided that freedom and solitude – the main advantages of this life, she met her greatest love. She was married three times, her third husband – businessman Douglas Edwards. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards live in the county of Hereford in a beautiful English house of the XVIII century with a small park.
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Greatest Soviet relic Mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin

Greatest Soviet relic Mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin. This architectural monument to Lenin – the revolutionary, thinker, leader is well known around the world. Lenin’s Mausoleum – the creation of an outstanding architect of our time Alexey Viktorovich Shchusev. The history of the Mausoleum was told in the memories of People’s Architect of the USSR D. Chechulin: “I remember the hard days of January 1924. Unprecedented frost, bonfires in the streets, endless queue to the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions, Alarm beeps, Crystal chandeliers in the Hall of Columns, black crepe, pain of irreparable loss… In those days, only once Shchusev appeared in the training workshop addressing to the students, and his colleagues, he said that he is extremely busy: in a matter of days and hours is necessary to build a temporary mausoleum.
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Fashion model of 1960s, Soviet Twiggy Galya Milovskaya

Soviet Twiggy Galya Milovskaya
The foreign press and people related to fashion called her “Soviet Twiggy”. She really looked like Twiggy in appearance, boyish figure and excessive thinness. Although Soviet Twiggy Galya Milovskaya dreamed of the theater, her life turned to be different. While still a student of the Shchukin Theater School, the beautiful girl began working as a fashion model at the Moscow Fashion House. A classmate invited her to try her hand in “demonstrating clothes”, as it was called, and Galina, without thinking twice, agreed. In the USSR she was considered rather skinny, because her weight barely reached the level of 42 kg with height 170 cm. In the Soviet Union it was considered that the model should be closer to the people, therefore, not too thin.
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