Leningrad School Russian Painting Newcomb Macklin Frame

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Leningrad School Russian Painting Newcomb Macklin Frame Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album You are bidding on an incredible piece, created over 50 years ago by a fantastic Russian artist from the Leningrad School of Art. This piece is signed illegibly and dated 50 for 1950. I purchased it at an estate sale of Russian Art outside of D.C. and was initially drawn to it because of the thick imposto and pallet knife work, which is indicative of the Leningrad School. Description of Piece: When you first glance at this piece the thick impasto draws your eyes up a winding pathway through a small grove of trees to a quaint Russian river cottage. This style of using the pallet knife as the primary tool is impressionism mixed with a sort of pointilism. The colors are vivid and the whole piece is enclosed in a Newcomb Macklin Frame. Size of Piece: Approximately 28 1/2 X 24 1/2 Framed and 23 1/2 X 19 1/2 Unframed.The Leningrad School of Painting Historical outline of the Leningrad School of Artby Sergei V. IvanovIt is well known that two principal movements in the 20th century’s art – namely, abstract art and the art of socialist realism – emerged, found their classics and took the shape of theoretical systems not only in one and the same country but also in the same center of European culture. Both movements should be attributed to St Petersburg – Petrograd – Leningrad.It is far less known that both movements fed upon the tradition of Russian art and sprang from the same art school. By the middle of the 20th century Leningrad had become perhaps the only European cultural center to have preserved the world-famous school of easel painting based on the continuous development of age-long traditions of the national and European painting.The history of the Leningrad school of painting spans the period from 1930 through to the early 1990s. Having emerged in the time of hottest discussions on the development of art and art education in the USSR, it became the missing link that allowed for the preservation of national realist painting and provided for its further advance in the epoch of socialism. Having made a tremendous impact on the Soviet fine art and the shaping of aesthetic perceptions and the inner life of the present generations, the Leningrad school of painting left the picture at the turn of 1980s and 1990s. It fulfilled its historical and artistic mission and gave place to the epoch of transition.Though the trappings of the school did not change, the new social order, new generations of artists and new artistic goals leave no doubts that the era of the Leningrad school has passed becoming an object of serious study and a matter of hot disputes.It is no accident that the Leningrad school of painting emerged in the beginning of the 1930s. Firstly, it was Leningrad that attracted talented youth from all over the vast country and remained the place of residence for the most influential artists of the period.Secondly, by the early 1930s the key methods of administration of the economy and the political system of the socialist state were largely formed. New structures providing for the implementation of state plans of economic and cultural development took their shape and the key functions in the process were assigned to Leningrad.Finally, formation of the Leningrad school was predetermined by the processes that were going on after the revolution of 1917 in art, artistic community and in the relationships between art institutions and the state.The Leningrad school proper usually refers to the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the period between 1932 and the early 1990s, including its traditions, teachers, alumni and their art works.In its broader sense, the Leningrad school may also include a num... read more

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