The Tretyakov Gallery presents a series of seminars "Art of the 20th Century. Chronicles"

December 1 at Tretyakov Gallery A seminar was held on the realisms of the third decade of the twentieth century. The 1930s became a difficult period for Russia, there was a hard turn of public consciousness, the power of the Soviets was finally established, the NEP was curtailed, and an unprecedented famine fell on a large part of the population.

This period received the capacious and harsh name “The Great Terror,” all people who were objectionable to the government were already either deported, or at any moment were subjected to executions or imprisonment in concentration camps. Waves of closed ships and repressions swam across the country, which did not have time to adapt to changes, the intelligentsia, which could become the core of the split, was destroyed. The Slavs were systematically deprived of their creative and intellectual elite, while the state faced a problem: how to fill the cultural vacuum that has formed?

I had to create a new art, fully focused on the Bolshevik ideology. Abandon the sciences, whose research was contrary to the official doctrine. And to show the whole world that the Soviets are the new Roman Empire, which cannot be defeated. After all, every Soviet citizen is an unshakable screw in a system heading for a "bright future."

At the world exhibition in Paris, the sculpture “Worker and Collective Farm Girl” was presented, which became a powerful symbol of the USSR and showed Europe that a dangerous and powerful state had entered the arena of political struggle. And the last years of the third decade of the twentieth century were marked by the beginning of the Second World War - the last period (at this point in time) of the division of the world.

Each seminar from the cycle “Art of the 20th Century” will include: a lecture part, watching video chronicles, as well as discussions during “walks” in the exhibition halls of the museum.

Eve Istr