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Spring (Plastov Painting)
''Spring'' (Russian language, Russian: ''Весна'') is a painting by the Russia, Russian Soviet Union, Soviet artist Arkady Plastov. He was assisted by his son Nikolai, who had graduated from the Moscow Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts a year earlier. The painting was created during summer and fall of 1954, first in the village of Prislonikha in the Ulyanovsk Oblast, Ulyanovsk region, where Arkady Plastov was born, and later in the artist's studio in Moscow. The painting depicts a naked young woman dressing a little girl in the open hall of a village Banya (sauna), bathhouse under the rare spring snow. The painting was shown at the very beginning of the Khrushchev Thaw and made a strong impression on experts and public in general. The female nudity had long been poorly represented in Soviet painting. The unusual subject provoked contradictory opinions. In particular, the artist was accused of wanting to depict the naked female body in order to show the audience th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkady Plastov
Arkady Alexandrovich Plastov (; – 12 May 1972) was a Russian Soviet painter. Biography Plastov was born into a family of icon painters in the village Prislonikha in the Russian Governorate of Simbirsk. He attended the sculpture department of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture beginning in 1914. In 1917, he returned to his native village, where he occupied himself with painting, drawing from nature. Starting in 1935, he steps introduces his category painting into the public. According to the strict political-artistic doctrine of the time at that time, which only permits the style of socialist realism in all art kinds, Plastov pictures the life in the Soviet Union, the pervasive building up of socialism. His work is characterized by his knowledge of the life in the villages of the Soviet Union, his love for his native land, strong, live pictures and his skills of painting. As the reaction to the events, which moved the population of the Soviet Union at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
