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Art After Stalin’s Death
Carter Ivey
Propaganda
• Propaganda was a major part of the arts
in Russia, with the main function of
portraying the country as a unified
powerhouse
• Often showed the ideal Russian citizen…
according to Stalin of course
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• The country was at war, politically with
the whole world
• This piece was created with the purpose
of glorifying Stalin
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• Stalin’s favorite propaganda artist was Boris Yefimov, who died
in 2008 at 108, old enough to have seen the last czar, Nicholas
II in person, become friends with Trotsky, have Stalin personally
edit his cartoons and vote for Vladimir Putin. He was so
despised by Hitler that Hitler famously said he personally
wanted to shoot him. He worked over 70 years and created over
70,000 drawings
• Furiously Patriotic and often times
antifascist, paintings were made to solidify
the Russian people as a united force
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Other Forms Of Art under
Stalin
• Propaganda was not the only other type
of art under Stalin, however these other
forms were highly censored
• These styles included: Primitivism,
Hyperrealism, Grotesque, and
Abstraction, most often in the name of
socialism
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• Socialist Realism’s main goal was to push
for the cause of the Soviet Party’s ideals
The Moscow Manege
• A beautiful building with avant-garde
pieces of art, this existed during the time
of Stalin
• When Khruschev visited this gallery, he
called it (translated from Russian), Dog
S***
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After Stalin, Focus on the
People
• This marked a rise in paintings about
local heroes, such as scientists, scholars,
and civil engineers
• Here you see Sputnik
Mid-1960’s
• Legacies of great artists and art
movement became open for public
discussion and practice, which led to the
broadening of understanding of realism,
especially relating to nature, as well as
expressionism
Timkov’s Russian Winter
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Expressionism
• Big move towards liberalist ideals in
Russian culture, as Expressionism allows
for the artists interpretation
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Gordon A. Craig, Europe Since 1914 (New York: Dryden, 1962), 756-757.
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modified 2003. http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/exhibiti/sovietart.html
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Stalinist Art. “Socialist Realism.” Last Modified 2009. http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Stalinist+Art
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The Russian Art Gallery. “Classics of Soviet Art.” Last Modified 2006.
http://www.russianartgallery.org/famous/soviet.html
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Vos Iz Neias. “Moscow, Russia - Oldest Jew Who Hitler Vowed to Shoot, Dies at 109.” Last modified October
5, 2008. http://www.vosizneias.com/21083/2008/10/05/moscow-russia-oldest-jew-who-hitler-vowed-to-shootdies-atc2a0109/