Discussions around the Principles of Soviet Art of the 1920s -1930s and the Addition of Painting “Socialist Realism”

Abstract

In this article, the author examines the problem of the formation of ideological and artistic programs of painting “social realism” in the period of 1920-1930-ies... Author proves that the artistic trends of the Soviet avant-garde initially grew on the basis of the revolutionary ideology and philosophy of nihilism, which actively rejected a thousand-year-old Christian culture and art as alien to the ideology of Soviet communism. This approach, which contained aggressive revolutionary features in the early Soviet avant-garde, was later “softened” by reliance on the traditions of Russian realism XIX He became less aggressive in painting socialist realism.