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Socialist Realism recognizes its earliest roots in the formation of Bolshevik rule in October of 1917. The art world was impacted immediately by a communist government that aimed to portray art as "communal in production, public in expression, and political in content" (Milner). Over the next decade non-objective art was filtered out of society to introduce a new socialist realist art which served to exalt Soviet Russia to the world and more importantly to the people of Russia. Socialist Realism included all forms of art and depicted the ideals and beauty of communal life; for example, workers "Celebrating the Harvest" or a narrative scene of a woman in the village museum displaying pictures of Lenin to the people as seen in "The Village Museum". Commercial galleries and artists suffered as a communist government abolished all artistic groups in 1932 and instituted the Union of Artists, a state-controlled organization whose purpose was propaganda and the glorification of the Soviet Union through narrative artwork.
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Viktor Nepostoev, 'The Village Museum 1965', 47 x 61, Oil on Canvas
1918 - 1980's
Born in Yaroslavl. Graduated from Yaroslavl Art School in 1941 before the beginning of WWII.
Member of the USSR Union of Artists - 1950.
All Union Art Exhibition - Moscow from 1955
Soviet Russia, Moscow 1960
Specializes in Socialist Realism. Permanent collection at several Russian Art Museums in Moscow, Yaroslavl, Vologda, and Rybinsk.
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Yuri Matushevski, 'Harvesting 1959', 15.75 x 19.75, Oil on Panel
1930 – 1999
Born in Kemerovo Region, Russian Federation. Graduated from the Irkutsk Art School. Graduated from the Leningrad (formerly St. Petersburg) Institute of Applied Arts – named after V.I. Mukhina. Since 1957 he has taken part in regional, republican and many other exhibitions as well as various auctions in Great Britain, Japan, Italy, USA, Belgium, Sweden and many others. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1960.
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