Vkhutemas
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Vkhutemas was the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, replacing the Moscow Svomas.
Architecture at Vkhutemas, book cover by El Lissitzky, 1927
The former Vkhutemas building
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Aleksandr Deyneka
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deyneka was a Soviet painter, graphic artist and sculptor, regarded as one of the most important Russian modernist figurative painters of the first half of the 20th century. H
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…of Fine Arts into a full art school, by creating a sculpture faculty in it. Prominent Socialist realist such as Boris Ioganson, Sergey Gerasimov and Alexander Deyneka became its teachers alongside Grabar, ensuring that there will be no deviation from the Party’s “general line” in arts. In 1948, the Institute was…
Deyneka receiving the Lenin Prize in 1964
Deneyka in his studio and his work The Future Pilots, 1937
The Defense of Sevastopol, 1942
Hockey Players, mosaic, 1959–1960