Memorable Dates: Exhibition “Time of a Great Country”, marking the 100th anniversary of the formation of the USSR, opened in Cheboksary

The exhibition Time of a Great Country, marking the 100th anniversary of the formation of the USSR, has opened in the Chuvash State Art Museum (Cheboksary).

The exhibition project presents the main directions of the development of fine art of the multinational Soviet state. The exposition features works of painting, graphics, sculpture, and decorative and applied art from the museum’s collections.

The formation of the Soviet Union is associated with the birth and flourishing of the method of socialist realism, designed to become the conductor of all the ideas and decisions of the Soviet government and the Communist Party as the guiding force of Soviet society.

The new Soviet art was based on the Russian realistic school of artists, whose creative journey began even before the October Socialist Revolution. Visitors to the exhibition will have an opportunity to see works by Vasily Baksheyev, Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya, Igor Grabar, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Robert Falk, Alexander Kuprin, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Pavel Shillingsky, Georgy Vereysky, Aristarkh Lentulov, Konstantin Yuon, Pavel Kuznetsov, Vladimir Favorsky, Alexey Kravchenko, and others.

The heyday of the Soviet state was reflected in the works of such masters as Georgy Ryazhsky, Viktor Perelman, Pyotr Ossovsky, Yuri Pimyonov, Alexander Gerasimov, Vladimir Stozharov, Yevsey Moiseyenko, Victor Oreshnikov, Alexander Laktionov, Georgy Yecheistov, Sergey Gerasimov, Mikhail Rojter, Victor Tsigal, Alexey Pakhomov, Alexander Vedernikov, Lidia Timoshenko, Vladimir Vetrogonsky.

The heyday of the national schools of fine arts of Belarus, Transcaucasia, the Baltic States, Central Asia, Ukraine, each of which had an original basis, is associated with the names of Jonas Kuzminkins, Felicita Pauluka, Elena Los, Iya Ozolin, Ilya Bogdesko, Mariam and Eranuhi Aslamazyan, Giorgi Tsereteli, Lidia Ilyina, Medat Kagarov, Akhmet Akhatbakiev, Tatiana Yablonskaya, Semyon Chuikov, Viya Maldupe, and others. The diversity of national schools, creative trends, and individualities, which became an important feature of Soviet art in the 1960s and 1980s, is reflected in the exposition.

To complement the exhibition Time of a Great Country, the museum’s anti-cinema organized screenings of films created during the Soviet era.