Article: Soviet Impressionist Painting.(Brief article)(Book review)

Soviet Impressionist Painting

Vern G. Swanson

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Bolshevik political ideology held contemporary European art movements such as Cubism and Abstract Modernism in contempt. The Soviet Union authorized, supported and fostered a naturalist oriented art movement from the 1930s through the 1980s. Thanks to the Cold War politics of the Kremlin, Russian artists created a realist school of painting, while the Communist government did what it could to suppress Soviet Impressionist paintings--many of whose art works ...

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