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In the early twentieth century, Russian avant-garde art was exclusively correlated to the art of France. Even when Kazimir Malevich suggested not linking oneself to any one country or any art at all,...
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...
Like Conceptualism, Sots Art was another influential movement that manipulated Soviet codes in the 1970s and 1980s. The photocollages of Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, the photoseries of Alexand...
Moscow Conceptualism is represented by the installations of Elena Yelagina and Igor Makarevich, the graphic art of Grisha Bruskin, the photography of Yury Leiderman and Ilya Kabakov’s classical Garde...
The art of the 1970s and 1980s is represented by such important movements as the Moscow version of Pop Art in the works of Mikhail Roginsky, Mikhail Chernyshov and Boris Turetsky, Conceptualism and S...