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@anthropologs Группа «Гнездо», «График истории», 1976 г., оргалит, бумага, темпера, тушь ⦾ The Nest group (or Gnezdo Group, or Donskoi-Roshal-Skersis), “History Graph”, 1976, tempera and ink on paper, mounted on hardboard ⦾ https://redmuseum.church/muzei-v-andegraunde-otchet-ob-issledovanii ⦾ https://russianartarchive.net/en/catalogue/person/PDBWT #comparisons #Nestgroup #GnezdoGroup #DRS #contemporaryart #sotsart #drawings #absurd #graphs #RSDLP #CPSU #TretyakovGallery

@anthropologs Группа «Гнездо», «График истории», 1976 г., оргалит, бумага, темпера, тушь ⦾ The Nest group (or Gnezdo Group, or Donskoi-Roshal-Skersis), “History Graph”, 1976, tempera and ink on paper, mounted on hardboard ⦾ https://redmuseum.church/muzei-v-andegraunde-otchet-ob-issledovanii ⦾ https://russianartarchive.net/en/catalogue/person/PDBWT #comparisons #Nestgroup #GnezdoGroup #DRS #contemporaryart #sotsart #drawings #absurd #graphs #RSDLP #CPSU #TretyakovGallery

#SotsArt fusing with #PopArt. https://www.artnet.com/artists/alexander-kosolapov/

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Finding more #SotsArt: #saatchigallery extremely fascinating Sots Art exhibition.in the pic "meeting of two sculptures" (lenin & giacometti)

#SotsArt was indeed the correct criticism of Soviet propaganda by the 1980s. It was an overload of ideology. Like how #Popart is an overload of advertising. https://tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/world-goes-pop/artist-biography/komar-and-melamid

Duke Digital Collections has some great photos in capturing the Cold War. Along with Soviet posters from 1917 till 1991, they also have some great dissident artists like Komar and Melamid.
https://repository.duke.edu/dc/russianposters
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Example of #SotsArt: 'Peace - war'. Alexander Kosolapov. 1975. It is a comedic mixture of Soviet art along with Pop-Art and advertising in the USA, along with historical elements. https://www.sotsart.com/portfolio-item/1970s/
On the left: 'peace, happiness, millions, working people, future, bright, communism, progress, friendship, truth, humanism, freedom, kvas (a drink). On the right: 'war, sorrow, throng, exploitation, past, dark, capitalism, regression, rivalry, lies, barbarism, slavery, Coca-Cola'

https://youtu.be/mfIq08t-RD8?si=ioownV0QPB9AEKie
Our museum was visited by a famous artist Alexander Melamid! He has a very diverse direction in the work! He painted portraits of the highest category of Hip-Hop artists: 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Kanye West and many others. He as well creates masterpieces of the characters from Soviet history, such as Joseph Stalin or Nikita Khrushchev. We were very pleased to help the artist get inspired in KGB Espionage Museum!
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https://youtu.be/o4x6h0fTggU?si=H2SZUDPRmtJQECeF
The Zimmerli Art Museum says it now owns the most impressive collection of Russian nonconformist art anywhere in the world.
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The worst things related to the RU transition happened because the RU population was just asocial alcoholics by the 80s, even a large economic shock wouldn't lead to the result it has if it was different in this regard.
Asocial alcoholics by the 80s, was noted by late 1980s #SotsArt (Leonid Sokov and Alexander Kosolapov)

Komar and Melamid are the founders of Sots-art (socialist art), a critical, nonconformist, conceptual form of pop art, based on the appropriation and subversion of socialist realist iconography and street propaganda, creating humorous, often grotesque, posters, paintings and banners. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/world-goes-pop/artist-biography/komar-and-melamid
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#SotsArt The idea of creating a composition based on the 1945 Yalta Conference occurred to Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, the founding fathers of Sots Art, in the early 1980s. The 1982 Yalta Conference was one of the first in the famous Nostalgic Socialist Realism series.

They were sitting together and deciding how we would organise the future world for the next few years.”
One of the most ambitious projects of Sots Art, the Yalta Conference series offers the viewer limitless ways of inter the history of the 20th century.
https://macdougallauction.com/en/catalogue/view?id=10320
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Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid: “I think I first saw a photograph from the Yalta Conference in the late 1970s. That photo cast a spell over me. It was banned during the Cold War years. Stalin could not have been sitting next to our enemies.
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