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Style: socialist realism
Genre: portrait
Portraits in socialist realism feature generalized images of working people and revolutionaries that reveal the spiritual essence and the inner beauty of a soviet person. Other than that, the style applies the same artistic principles as we observe in realism – the individual gives floor to the typical. The artist has no intention to convey the emotional state of a person; what’s important for him is to capture the social-minded citizen, devoted to the idea of socialism, demonstrating full commitment and aiming all his intellectual, spiritual and physical capacity for the good of the generations to come. The idea behind a socialist realist portrait is that those are the qualities that all people do or should share.
A person who gave his preference to the portrait genre of socialist realism is a person most definitely born in the USSR. The aggregated image of the builder of communism on the canvas reverberates in his memory and becomes personal falling into hundreds of real people – parents, grandparents, teachers and friends who lived these ideas for real. This person is grateful for the superhuman effort and selflessness it took to create his future. This person – you – judges people based on the actions, not the words and appearances; you can see the real value of a person through the social role mask.
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Maitres: Ye.P. Antipova, A.Ye. Arkhipov, G.G. Rizhsky, M.V. Nesterov, L.O. Rusov, S.V. Maliutin, P.D. Korin (Russia), G.M. Gliuk (Ukraine), I. Vladimirov (Lithuania).
Modern artists: socialist realism developed in the USSR and the countries of the communist block; today artists hardly follow these aesthetic principles to the letter.
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