Soviet Artists Painting War Time. S.D. Kichko (b. 1946) Farewell. 1972. Oil on canvas
Soviet Artists Painting War Time
The Great Patriotic War became obvious the most important factor in the development of art in the 1940s. Soviet artists and sculptors, like other citizens, have been actively involved in the protection of the country, but because of the nature of their profession, they (as well as writers) were attracted to propaganda tasks, determined by the government, who gave an enormous role in this period. During the war, there were significant works of easel graphics, and the variety of experiences has given rise to a variety of forms. It is fast and accurate front-line documentary sketches, different in technique, style and artistic level. These were portrait drawings of soldiers, guerrillas, sailors, nurses, commanders – a rich chronicle of the war, then transferred in part in the engraving. In the scenery of the war a special place is occupied by the image of besieged Leningrad. War time painting had its stages. At the beginning of the war – the artists mainly fixed what they saw, not aspiring to a generalization, almost hasty pictorial sketches. Artists painted on live impressions, which they had a lot. These paintings always had a great sincerity, passion, admiration by people bravely withstanding inhumane challenges, integrity and honesty of artistic vision, a desire to be extremely conscientious and accurate.
AA Deineka (1899-1969). Defense of Sevastopol. 1942. Oil on canvas
AA Deineka (1899-1969). Defense of Sevastopol. 1942. Oil on canvas
The poster was one of the most important genres of Soviet art during the Second World War.
EV Vuchetich (1908-1974) Warrior-liberator. The central figure of the monument to Soviet Army soldiers who fell in battle against fascism in Berlin. 1946-1949. Bronze
Soviet Artists Painting War Time
B. Ni (b. 1934) in 1941. 1969. Oil on canvas
BM Makarov (b. 1937) Severe youth. 1968. Oil on canvas
MV Dantzig (b. 1930) Partisan wedding. 1969-1970. Oil on canvas
N. Pavlov. In memory of the Hero of the Soviet Union Fyodor Popov. 1979
Nikolai Osenev (1909-1983). Komsomol on construction of defensive lines. 1948 oil on canvas
Portrait of Marshal of Soviet Union Ivan Konev, 1947. Oil on canvas. Museum of Ukrainian art, Kiev
Pyotr Romanov. Pilot IV Shumidub. 1944
TG Nazarenko. Partisans have come. 1975
Vasily Prokofievich Efanov. (born 1900). Portrait of twice Hero of the Soviet Union Marshal Chuikov. 1971. Oil
VF Zadorozhny (b. 1924) They are immortal (Krasnodon heroes). 1955 oil on canvas
Glory to the Red Army
Mercilessly crush and destroy the enemy
More bread for the front and rear. Let us harvest the crop completely
Motherland calls
Our forces are uncountable
Soldier of Red Army, save us
Soldier of WWII changing German sign ‘To the East’ to ‘To the West’
Ural to front
Oleg Savostyuk M. (b. 1927), BA Uspensky (1927-2005). Victory. Poster. 1968
LD Sleptsova. Portrait of veteran of the Great Patriotic War SD Flegontov. 1975
AP Tkachev and SP Tkachev (Moscow region). May of 1945. 1980-1981. From a series of paintings about the Great Patriotic War. Canvas, oil