British Realism VS Soviet Realism 2
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How did Realism co-opt into Communism as an aesthetic in the USSR whilst in the UK it was a very de-politicised style which played with biblical & even mythological themes instead? Join Freddie for some seldom seen works and insight into the context of the times in which they were made.
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Realism has often been unfairly lumbered with a millstone wrapped around its conceptual neck; branded as dangerously ideological, aesthetically rigid, or worse, overly sentimental....
Yet, recent ambitious exhibitions in the UK such as Revolution, Russian Art 1917-1932 at the Royal Academy and Truth to Life: British Realist Painting in the 1920s and 1930s at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art quickly dispensed with these associations... Instead, they offered the British public an array of highly imaginative, tantalisingly evocative and, crucially, never-before-seen works from one of the most eclectic sub-sections in the canon of art history.
While “Decadent Art” that included Cubism and Futurism was banned by Stalin in the 1920s, “The Return to Order” in England after the chaos of the First World War created unexpected but uncanny parallels between two ideologically polar nations.
Both British and Soviet Realism were informed by photography, classicism and a close observation of…
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