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The “generation of the sixties” (??????????????) led the wave of Soviet nonconformist art in the 1960s.
The most important representatives of the Moscow underground were Vladimir Yankilevsky, Dmitry Plavinsky, Eduard Steinberg and Marlen Spindler.
Necrorealism emerged from the New Artists movement. Although the title was a parody of the term Socialist Realism, the movement did more than just poke fun at the official codes. In the understanding...
The New Artists movement of the early 1980s – Timur Novikov, Ivan Sotnikov, Inal Savchenkov, Vadim Ovchinnikov, Sergei Bugayev (Africa), Oleg Maslov and Oleg Zaika – was based on various different so...
Geometric abstraction was one of the leading artistic movements in the plastic culture of the second half of the twentieth century. This movement is represented iby the works of such masters who deve...
Linked to the activities of a group of young architects disappointed in existing practice and developing a new artistic strategy, the “paper architecture” movement flourished in the 1980s. Form, styl...