Soviet monumental propaganda

Soviet monumental propaganda. Youzas Mikenas (1901-1964). The first swallows. 1964. Gypsum

Soviet monumental propaganda played an important role in the ideological and aesthetic education of the people. For the sculpture “First Swallows” Soviet Lithuanian sculptor Youzas Mikenas (1901 – 1964) was People’s Artist of the USSR (1961), winner of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1947), Order of Lenin (1954), member of the Communist party of the Soviet Union since 1952. “First Swallows” became the last sculpture of the artist, for which he was awarded the State Prize of the Lithuanian SSR in 1966, posthumously. The sculpture was exhibited at the Expo 67 World’s Fair in Montreal (Canada). Enhanced version of the sculpture is cast in bronze and in 1987 set near the National Gallery in Vilnius.

Soviet monumental propaganda. GN Postnikov (1914-1978). Into the space. 1964 (monument in honor of space explorers)

These sculptural compositions, busts and portraits of the heroes of war and labor, the Soviet intelligentsia, the first space explorers were created by an excited hand of the artist and, as a rule, marked by deep penetration into the inner world of the model, the unique imaginative interpretation. The portraits disclosed different characters, taken in various psychological states, but recreated with the passionate belief in man which can not but cause aspirations to become a better, more perfect.

Soviet sculptor Angelina Leonova (born 1926). The pilot – cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union V. Tereshkova. 1965. Concrete

Sculptors have become one of the active participants and performers of the great Lenin’s plan of monumental propaganda. Love of man, his wonderful deeds, enthusiastic acceptance and approval of the art of our wonderful Soviet reality – characteristic of many works of Soviet artists.

AE Belostotsky (born in 1921). On guard. 1964-1965. Metal, glass, concrete. Central Museum of the Armed Forces

Soviet monumental propaganda

Andrey Faidysh (1920-1967). The pilot – cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin. 1964. Bronze

A.B. Grigoryan. Sower. 1964

AI Chernov (born 1942 Moscow). Runaway summer. 1975 Wrought copper

Alexandra Bragina (b. 1922) The traffic controller. 1965. Gypsum

AV Tsigal (born 1948 Moscow). Fishermen of Makhachkala. 1976. Bronze

Gukas Chubaryan. Portrait of caster Kh. Khachinyan, 1970

I.I. Cherapkin (Moscow). Altay mountain motive. 1981. Wood

ID Shadr (1887-1941). Red Army soldier. 1940. Aluminium. Central Museum of the Armed Forces

Iosif Chaikov (1888 – 1979) Football. 1938. Bronze. The State Tretyakov Gallery

LN Golovnitsky (1929-1994). Pavel Korchagin. 1955

LV Shervud (1871-1954). Guard. 1932. Aluminium. Central Museum of the Armed Forces

Mikhail Gabe (1917-1968). Through the Siwash. 1964 Limestone

MV Pereyaslavets (Moscow). Marathon. 1981. Bronze

NV Tomsky (real name Grishin; 1900-1984). Architect LG Golubovsky monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union Army Gen. ID Chernyakhovsky (Vilnius). 1950. Bronze, granite