Non-conformist Soviet art of the iron curtain era.
1960s-1980s.
1960s-1980s.
Lecture course. Ten lectures, about an hour and a half long each, telling about the history of underground art in Soviet Union from the 1960s till the 1980s (Perestroyka). The origins of Russian contemporary art from Lianozovo school to Sretensky boulevard, Ilia Kabakov, Collective Actions, Vadim Zaharov and many others.
First done at the Ko-sa-ten art centre from September 2016 till April 2017.
In Japanese.
You can watch a video of the last lecture here: YouTube: 鉄のカーテン時代の反社会的な ソビエトアート#10
First done at the Ko-sa-ten art centre from September 2016 till April 2017.
In Japanese.
You can watch a video of the last lecture here: YouTube: 鉄のカーテン時代の反社会的な ソビエトアート#10
1. General situation in the USSR after the revolution, avant-garde, Stalin and repressions (briefly). The new art doctrine. Rules and restrictions for artists.
Academical official art: style, exhibitions, artist career.
Underground currents (briefly), several examples.
Course plan. Sources of information.
Academical official art: style, exhibitions, artist career.
Underground currents (briefly), several examples.
Course plan. Sources of information.
2. Non-conformist art in the 60s.
Stalin's death and changes in the society. Start of non-conformist art.
Personal styles and paths of underground artists of the 60s part 1:
Lianozovo school, Vladimir Kropivnitsky etc.
Yuri Zlotnikov. Vladimir Nemuhin. Anatoly Zverev.
Abstract expressionism, figurative expressionism, metaphysical painting, surrealism.
Stalin's death and changes in the society. Start of non-conformist art.
Personal styles and paths of underground artists of the 60s part 1:
Lianozovo school, Vladimir Kropivnitsky etc.
Yuri Zlotnikov. Vladimir Nemuhin. Anatoly Zverev.
Abstract expressionism, figurative expressionism, metaphysical painting, surrealism.
3. Non-conformist art in the 60s.
Personal styles and paths of underground artists of the 60s part 2:
Oskar Rabin, Oleg Tselkov, Vladimir Pyatnitsky, Alexander Kharitonov, Michail Shwartsman, Yulo Sooster and Yuri Sobolev-Nolev, Vladimir Slepyan, Vladimir Yankilevsky .
Abstract expressionism, soviet surrealism. Religious art. Geometric abstraction. Soviet pop-art.
Personal styles and paths of underground artists of the 60s part 2:
Oskar Rabin, Oleg Tselkov, Vladimir Pyatnitsky, Alexander Kharitonov, Michail Shwartsman, Yulo Sooster and Yuri Sobolev-Nolev, Vladimir Slepyan, Vladimir Yankilevsky .
Abstract expressionism, soviet surrealism. Religious art. Geometric abstraction. Soviet pop-art.
4. Non-conformist art in the 60s.
Personal styles and paths of underground artists of the 60s part 3.
Fransisco Infante, Lev Nusberg, Michail Chernyshev.
Kinetism, soviet ready-made, movement and volume on the plain surface.
Exhibition in Manej in 1962, Khrushchev's scandal.
Personal styles and paths of underground artists of the 60s part 3.
Fransisco Infante, Lev Nusberg, Michail Chernyshev.
Kinetism, soviet ready-made, movement and volume on the plain surface.
Exhibition in Manej in 1962, Khrushchev's scandal.
5. Underground artists lifestyle, jobs, private flat exhibitions. First art collectors and curators.
Official art and underground relationship.
Events after the 1962 scandal.
Alternative career paths: children's books illustration, animation.
Official art and underground relationship.
Events after the 1962 scandal.
Alternative career paths: children's books illustration, animation.
6. 1970s. The Sretensky boulevard group. Conceptual art sources.Ilya Kabakov, Yulo Sooster, Ernst Neizvestny, Erik Bulatov, Oleg Vasiliev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Victor Pivovarov, Ivan Chuikov.
7. 1970s. Social art.
Vitaly Komar, Alexander Melamid, Leonid Sokov, Boris Orlov, Alexander Kosolapov.
The famous bulldozer exhibition. The first official shows of underground art.
Vitaly Komar, Alexander Melamid, Leonid Sokov, Boris Orlov, Alexander Kosolapov.
The famous bulldozer exhibition. The first official shows of underground art.
8. 1970s. Moscow conceptualists school.
Ilya Kabakov, Andrey Monastyrsky and Collective actions group, Rimma and Valery Gerlovin, Dmitry Prigov. Comparision of russian and world conceptualism.
Ilya Kabakov, Andrey Monastyrsky and Collective actions group, Rimma and Valery Gerlovin, Dmitry Prigov. Comparision of russian and world conceptualism.
9. 1970s-1980s. "The new wave" of conceptualists.
"Gnezdo" and "Muhomor" groups. Artart gallery. Nikita Alexeyev, SZ group, Vadim Zaharov.
"Gnezdo" and "Muhomor" groups. Artart gallery. Nikita Alexeyev, SZ group, Vadim Zaharov.
10. Perestroyka. The famous Sotheby's auction in Moscow in 1988, first and second generations of underground artists selling their works and mostly leaving the country.
The rise of a squatting movement, the two new centers of art life in change for APTART gallery - Kindergarten and Furmanov. New young art groups like World Champions.
The rise of a squatting movement, the two new centers of art life in change for APTART gallery - Kindergarten and Furmanov. New young art groups like World Champions.
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