- AKhRR
The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia ( _ru. Ассоциация художников революционной России, "Assotsiatsia Khudozhnikov Revolutsionnoi Rossii", 1922-1928), later known as Association of Artists of the Revolution (Ассоциация художников революции, "Assotsiatsia Khudozhnikov Revolutsii" or AKhR, 1928-1933) was a group of artists in the
Soviet Union in 1928-1933. Diverse members of the group gained favor as the legitimate bearers of the Communist ideal into the world of art, formulating framework for theSocialist Realism style.Original founding members included
Pavel Radimov (the last chairman ofPeredvizhniki movement),Sergey Malyutin ,Yevgeny Katzman ,Pyotr Shukhmin and other realist painters, who already established themselves in artistic world before theRussian Revolution of 1917 . The group formed within thePeredvizhniki movement, that held their last, 47th, public exhibition in 1922, and clearly placed itself in opposition toavant-garde art.Their first public statement as a new entity was a 1922 exhibition in
Moscow ; all proceeds were used for the relief ofRussian famine of 1921 . By 1928, the group sponsored 10 nation-wide exhibitions with high publicity. Despite its revolutionary title, it successfully united artists of the "old school" likeAbram Arkhipov ,Aleksandr Makovsky ,Nikolay Kasatkin ,Konstantin Yuon and the younger ones like Sergei Gerasimov andIsaak Brodsky . In a decade, it grew up from 80 to over 300 members. Broad membership and dominance of mature artists born in 1870s and 1880s helped in establishing AKhRR as a reliable institution, far from ultra-revolutionary rhetorics.During the crackdown on independent art movements in 1932-1933, AKhRR served as the nucleus for the stalinist
USSR Union of Artists , and was liquidated after its formation.ee also
Other groups in Soviet art of 1920s:
*Four Arts movement (Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin ,Martiros Saryan etc.)
*OST (Alexander Deyneka )References
* М.Герман, "Живопись 1920-1930 годов", М., 1998
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