Showing posts with label Political art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Political art. Show all posts
Monday, September 23, 2019

CSI: The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat

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Jacques-Louis David - La mort de Marat - 1793 I label this post as being political art. I might have almost equally called it historical...
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Monday, April 15, 2019

Examples of Socialist Realism Group Portraits

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Some Soviet Social Realism paintings were very large, and a number of these were group portraits with large casts. Often the groups portray...
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Thursday, March 14, 2019

Transitioning to Socialist Realism

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During the early years of the Soviet Union many younger painters embraced Modernism. This was a continuation of a process that had been goi...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

A Soviet Tag-Team Painting

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Until recently I was unaware that, along with collective farming and other individualism-suppressing practices, there was the use of "b...
Monday, February 11, 2019

A Posthumous Tribute to Sergei Kirov

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Sergei Kirov (1886-1934) met a curious end, as explained in this Wikipedia entry. He was a prominent Bolshevik, First Secretary of the Cen...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Examples of Soviet Brigade Art

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Aside from perhaps a few religious icons and early modernists such as Kandinsky and Malevich, my college art history class ignored Russian a...
Monday, January 7, 2019

Elegance Depicted in Soviet Socialist Realism

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I'm pretty sure that even knowledgable art fans rarely give the Socialist Realism paintings of the Soviet Union much thought, if any. A...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Diego Rivera: Pretty Good Artist When not Being Political

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One of the minor themes of this blog is my contempt for political art -- paintings or drawings manifestly espousing a political point of vie...
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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Alfredo Ambrosi, Aeropittura Artist

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Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi (1901-1945) -- Wikipedia entry in French here -- was not the most famous or best practitioner of Aeropittura , a late...
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