Soviet art

totalitarian societies, Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, politics and the arts were prevalent. In both countries, a strict one ruler government was formed in the 18th and 19th centuries. However, through the dictatorships in each country the citizens were able to connect to the history of dance. While dancing was famous in Russia under Lenin and Stalin, Germany floundered and did not succeed under the rule of Hitler. Although these two countries may not seem to have a comparison, they do. Soviet…

could utilize their own actions, literature, or art to communicate discontent. The yurodivy had a certain immunity, safe within their eccentricity, that allowed them to speak out against societal ills. In the Soviet Union, speaking out against the government or society was a death sentence, if not a one way ticket to a Siberian prison, or gulag. In such an oppressive atmosphere, a yurodivy would have to…

Stalin’s death in 1953 transformed the Soviet Communism and way of life in many different ways. Essentially, the transformation of Soviet life after the Thaw can be said to have undergone three phases: introduction of reforms during Khrushchev’s era, the Brezhnev stagnation, and Gorbachev reforms that ultimately led to the Soviet Union dissolving in 1991. When Nikita Khrushchev rose to power, he made significant reforms including policies of peace between the Soviet and other nations and…

In two totalitarian societies, Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, politics and the arts were prevalent. In both countries, a strict one-ruler government was formed in the 20th century. However, through these dictatorships, citizens in each country were able to connect to the history of dance. Dancing helped to entertain and also advanced political propaganda. While dance was famous in Russia under Lenin and Stalin, dance in Germany was not as revered as Russian ballet, especially during the time of…

inspired by Art Nouveau & artists like Aubrey Beardsley. Later he became a Futurism & he absorted the work of Vladimir Tatlin & Suprematism of Kazimir Malevich. At the end of the decade, he begin to explore Constructivism. This study analysis into the aspect of illustration & sculptural art. Altogether to produce abstruct artworks to separate out the factores of each image: line, form, space, colour surface & texture. Contructivism began to support new target on the material aspect of art & its…

1963 Erik Bulatov, Glory to the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), 1975 Emerging during the economic affluence of the United States post World War II, Pop Art is a movement during the late 1960s that can be characterised by the appropriation of commercial and highly recognisable images, bright colours, and the blurring of boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art. Tom Wesselman’s Still Life No. 35 may be seen as an example of Pop Art – the use of bright colours and visible prominence…

To spend years cultivating a theory on the artistic significance of a “[mere] bugaboo used by the censorship to persecute and destroy ‘genuine art’ and its creators,” is a risky endeavour begging for criticism, but Boris Groys makes landmark progress at linking up the threads between the modern and postmodern from a Soviet perspective in The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond. Sharply critiquing the Clement Greenbergs of the world who dismiss Socialist…

Comparing Soviet Union and Russian Media Censorship run by the rulers of the USSR began when the state and church separated in 1918, and lasted until the late 1980’s. The Glavit, which was the censorship office, was created in 1922. Its purpose was to reject everything that opposed the new Soviet rule and that would “corrupt” its citizens’ minds to resist authority. The Glavit controlled disapproving newspapers, visual and performing arts, and all written publications. There was much hope that…

leader, who was only strict when it came to the military conflicts. Generally, he was pretty easy-going and pleasant to talk to, according to the film. Nowadays, this film is one of the main ones that demonstrate the cult of personality during the Soviet times. The personality of Stalin was idolized, which was quite similar to what happened in Germany, where Hitler was worshiped like a god. The film showed that…

“propaganda” did not have the passive connotation that it has today, especially in the Soviet Union. Most of the Bolsheviks’ leaders and even Soviet artists had a positive view of propaganda and considered themselves as propagandists (Russell 2009, 58). After they succeeded in their revolution, the Bolsheviks looked forward to build what they called the new social Soviet society; they wanted to enlighten the Soviet people and to create a new socialist human being. Influenced by Marxism, the…