Soviet nonconformist art was Soviet art produced in the former Soviet Union outside the control of the Soviet state started in the Stalinist era, in particular, outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism. Other terms used to refer to this phenomenon are Soviet counterculture, "underground art" or "unofficial art".
USSR stamp by Aleksandr Gerasimov
Ernst Neizvestny. The Prophet. Sculpture Park, Uttersberg, Sweden
Timur Novikov
Oleg Vasiliev, Before the Sunrise, 1964
Soviet art is the visual art style produced after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and during the existence of the Soviet Union, until its collapse in 1991. The Russian Revolution led to an artistic and cultural shift within Russia and the Soviet Union as a whole, including a new focus on socialist realism in officially approved art.
Boris Kustodiev: Celebration Marking the Opening of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern on Uritsky Square in Petrograd on 19 June 1920. 1921. Russian Museum
Kazimir Malevich: Mower. 1930.
Isaak Brodsky. A Portrait of Maxim Gorki. 1937. Tretyakov Gallery
S. Osipov, Cornflowers, 1976