So here is the final verdict on your preferences in art:
Style: socialist realism
Genre: still life
The soviet way of life is absolutely unique, so even if art is a blind spot for the viewer, he or she will easily tell a still life of a socialist realist from the same genre in any other style. Objects on the canvases receive a new aesthetic meaning, a new purpose that goes far beyond mere admiration or photographic depiction. Everyday items that surround the common toiler, the builder of socialism, bring forth and highlight the tremendous self-sacrifice, disregard for personal needs, the generosity of spirit and the nobleness of the workaday interior that is luminous with the greater purpose of devotion to the happiness of the future generations and building the new society, the one that is fair and free.
A person who prefers still lifes of socialist realists is against all kinds of prettification, he does not share the values of the consumer society. He subjects his needs to thorough scrutiny and never lets the need to possess take the upper hand over his consciousness. When reminiscing time comes, the words and actions elude him, but he clearly remembers the things, the objects, the setting that made his life cozy and the world small. Do you remember your granny’s favourite shawl or a brooch?
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Maitres: I.I. Mashkov, P.P. Konchalovsky, M.S. Sariyan (Russia), G.M. Gliuk, S.F. Shishko (Ukraine)
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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