So here is the final verdict on your preferences in art:
Style: socialist realism
Genre: caricatures, posters
The circumstances and the living conditions in which the soviet people managed to achieve mind-blowing goals, and the goals themselves go beyond all logic. It took a considerable amount of will power and courage to take one for the road and go fight fascists, improve virgin lands and build the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway with minimum support. It also took a great deal of humour – hence the posters and caricatures gained much popularity in the USSR.
A person who prefers posters and caricatures in the style of socialist realism was probably born after the USSR collapsed, on the territory of CIS. The themes and subjects are still close and familiar, but with time the pain and the fear have faded away leaving you with the humor that gave soviet people the courage to face deathly perils and hardships, and never look away.
Hanging copies of these posters on the walls has become quite a trend today, leaving us with the hope that these slogans, appeals and illustrations will help the younger generations to avoid the mistakes of their fathers and take over, acknowledge and develop the tremendous qualities of a soviet person – self-confidence, faith in your people, your future, optimism and unbelievable self-sacrifice for the good of the generations to come.
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Maitres: V.S. Ivanov, Kukryniksy, Kokorekin A.A., Koretsky V.B.
Modern artists: socialist realism developed in the USSR and the countries of the communist block; today artists do not follow these aesthetic principles to the letter. Nevertheless, posters and caricatures of the socialist realism epoch are widely used in modern commercial art.
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