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Great Britain to present Russian Revolution art

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Great Britain to present Russian Revolution art


13.02.2017

Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

Exhibition devoted to the October Revolution opened February, 11 in London. The display is located in the Royal Academy of Arts, according to RIA Novosti. It covers the period from 1917 to 1932. More than 200 exhibits from the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum and private collections are represented at this showroom. Some of the items have never been presented to the British audience before.

The exhibition is split into topic–based sections. For example, the section Saluting the Leader contains images of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. The section A Man and a Machine tells spectators about proletariat, obviously the the main subject of post-revolutionary art, as well as machines helping people to over-fulfill the factory plan. The section Destiny of Peasants contains artworks on the subject of collectivization and rural way of life.

The section Better Tomorrow is dedicated to avant-garde artists. They firmly believed that revolution is a splendid opportunity for creation of new art styles. One of the exhibition halls demonstrates masterpieces of Kazimir Malevich. Posters under the topic “We are surrounded by Enemies” by Vladimir Mayakovsky are placed in a separate exhibition space. In another hall the spectators may contemplate the artworks of Petrov–Vodkin.

In the addition to the above mentioned, the audience will be able to see a model of flying machine, developed after the sketches of Vladimir Tatlin.

The final section is Stalin’s Utopia, it concerns large-scale projects of Stalin. There is a pavilion in commemoration of Stalin repression victims at the exhibition as well.

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