Arkady A. Plastov was a recognized artist of the USSR, winner of Lenin and Stalin Prizes. He depicted life in Soviet villages and it never looked gloomy, quite on the contrary, his pictures were rather bright and colorful, people depicted looked happy either at work or at a holiday table.
Spring 1954.
Noon.1961
Going to vote at the elections.1947.
Summer.1959-1960.
Female tractor drivers.
Breakfast of tractor drivers.
Midwife Akulina Larionovna.
Peter G. Chernyaev. 1949.
Darling.
At the spring, 1961.
Grandson is painting.
Haymaking.
First snow.
Horses bathing, 1937.
Saturday. 1944
Germans are coming (Sunflowers), June 1941.
The blind, 1950s -1967.
When peace reigns in the world.
A fascist has flown over.
Harvest-festival.
Self-portrait.
And it’s the monument to A. Plastov in Prislonikha village of Russia.
via dok-zlo
The motorcycle on the third picture is very probably Czech Jawa 250/353.
Wonderful paintings by a Master. Thanks for posting.
Looks like anarchist-communism to me; Kropotkin’s dream. (just eliminate the Stalinist cult-of-personality idiocy/lunacy)
Almost Van Gogh’s style? Impressionist?
Rather Manet. But some 80 yrs later. Van Gogh would be too abstract and modern for Soviet politruks
It represents no style at all.
It represents no style at all.