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The Russian Revolution was inaugurated with the February Revolution in early 1917, in the midst of World War I. With the German Empire dealing major defeats on the war front, and increasing logistical problems in the rear causing shortages of bread and grain, the Russian Army was steadily losing morale, with large scale mutiny looming. [ 1 ]
They claimed that their art style was meant to capture "revolutionary impulse of this great moment of history" without "insult[ing] the revolution in the eyes of the international proletariat." [3] Their first public statement as a new entity was a 1922 exhibition in Moscow; all proceeds were used for the relief of Russian famine of 1921. By ...
Russian Graphic Art during the Years of the Revolution 1917-1922, Moscow: Dom Pechati, 1923. Williams, Harold Whitmore. Russia of the Russians, New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1915, p. 316. Winestein, Anna (2005). Dreamer and Showman: The Magical Reality of Alexandre Benois, Boston Public Library, 2005.
Proletkult (Russian: Пролетку́льт, IPA: [prəlʲɪtˈkulʲt]), a portmanteau of the Russian words "proletarskaya kultura" (proletarian culture), was an experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Soviet art is the visual art style produced after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and during the existence of the Soviet Union, until its collapse in 1991. The Russian Revolution led to an artistic and cultural shift within Russia and the Soviet Union as a whole, including a new focus on socialist realism in officially approved art.
Sunset is an oil on canvas painting of 1917 by the Russian Symbolist artist Arkady Rylov. It depicts a red sun setting over a lacustrine landscape, the redness of the sunset symbolizing the dawning of the October Revolution. [1] Rylov was a supporter of the Revolution, and considered the father of the Soviet landscape school. [2]
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris 27.5 x 31.5 1917 Akhtyrka, Framework for a Pile of Hay and Farm: Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris 23.5 x 33.5 Oil paint on card board 1918 Amazon in Mountains: Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg 31 x 25 Reverse glass painting 1918 With fruits: Private Collection, Vienna, Austria 34 x 29 Reverse glass ...
The Russian avant-garde was a large, influential wave of avant-garde modern art that flourished in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, approximately from 1890 to 1930—although some have placed its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as late as 1960.