Click link to see full article with video: https://www.fox9.com/news/the-museum-of-russian-art-in-minneapolis-shares-exhibits-online-amid-covid-19-pandemic MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – From paintings of Russian leaders and the masses to children’s drawings of owls, The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis shows people what the culture of Russia was like from the 1300s to today. Now, its mission continues even in […] Read more
May 4, 2020 Paintings by Yuri Komendant are familiar to our regular visitors. We exhibited his works before, featuring handsome miners and steel workers. This painting’s protagonist is definitely Komendant’s type of male beauty. But unlike the previously exhibited works which were portraits, this is the so-called thematic painting. Thematic paintings were the top genre […] Read more
April 23, 2020 Today’s painting features the quintessential Soviet leader who was behind all that: Vladimir I. Lenin. There are several paintings in this exhibition “Leaders and the Masses” about Lenin. This one is pretty unorthodox I would say. It was created during the late Soviet era when the established canon of leader depictions began […] Read more
April 21, 2020 With some previous posts on Leaders and the Masses, the exhibition structure has begun to emerge (I hope). The first section of the show is organized around the idea of a slogan as means of communication between leaders and the masses. A slogan usually contains a concise clear unambiguous political message understandable […] Read more
April 17, 2020 It is amazing how many of this show’s paintings have slogans incorporated into them, whether explicitly or implicitly, like in our previous post of the painting “Land.” Today’s painting “First Decree on Peace” takes us back to the same event referred to in “Land.” — Second Congress of the Soviets on October […] Read more
