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Art of the 20th Century
A Revolution in the Arts
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Art Styles
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Soviet Nonconformist Art
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Komar and Melamid
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Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid were born in
Moscow, Komar on September 11, 1943 and Melamid on July 14, 1945. Both
artists attended the Moscow Art School from 1958 to 1960, and the
Stroganov Institute of Art & Design, Moscow, from 1962 to 1967. Their
collaborative work started in 1965, and in 1967, they initiated the
SOTS Art movement (the Soviet version of Western Pop Art). Their first
international exhibition was at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, in
1976.
Since then, they have had numerous public
commissions and exhibitions throughout the world. In 1978, Komar &
Melamid became United States residents. In 1981, they were the first
Russian artists to receive a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
Notorious dissidents before they left the Soviet Union, the artists
have since been called "exasperating expatriates" for their travesties
of Socialist Realism.
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Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid
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Lenin at the Palladium
1992
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Siren (from Mythological Creatures series)
1986
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Artists' collection of George
Washington Memorabilia
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Washington, Lenin,
Duchamp, and Duncan
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Double Self Portrait as Young Soviet Pioneers
(from Nostalgic Socialist Realism
series)
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I Saw Stalin Once When I Was a Child
(from Nostalgic Socialist Realism
series)
1981-82
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Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives, Lenin Will Live
(from
Nostalgic Socialist Realism series)
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The Origin of Socialist Realism
(from
Nostalgic Socialist Realism series)
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The Origin of Socialist Realism
(from
Nostalgic Socialist Realism series)
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The Origin of Socialist Realism
(from
Nostalgic Socialist Realism series)
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Portrait of "Medved"
(from Nostalgic
Socialist Realism series)
Medved means bear in Russian
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The Red Flag (from Nostalgic Socialist
Realism series)
1982-83
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Nostalgic View on the Kremlin from Manhattan
(from
Nostalgic Socialist Realism series)
1981-82
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Visit to the Museum of the Revolution
(from
Nostalgic Socialist Realism series)
1981-82
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What Is To Be Done? 1970s?
(from
Nostalgic Socialist Realism series)
1982-83
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Stalin in Front of Mirror
(from
Nostalgic Socialist Realism series)
1982-83
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The Tempest—Collective Farm Workers With Prize Bull
(from
Nostalgic Socialist Realism series)
1981-82
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Still Life With Marx and Engels
(from
Nostalgic Socialist Realism series)
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October Still Life With Machine Gun
(from
Nostalgic Socialist Realism series)
1982
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A Knock at the Door
(from Nostalgic
Socialist Realism series)
1982-83
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Thirty Years Ago, 1953
(from Nostalgic
Socialist Realism series)
1983
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Blindman's Buff
(from Nostalgic Socialist Realism
series)
1982-83
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Stalin and the Muses
(from Nostalgic
Socialist Realism series)
1981-82
The muse of painting presents Clio, the muse of history, to Stalin
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Bolsheviks Returning Home After a Demonstration
(from
Nostalgic Socialist Realism series)
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Yalta
Conference
1982
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Lenin Hails a Cab
1992
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American
Dreams
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Portrait of Ronald Reaganas Centaur
1981
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Allosaurus
1980
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Khrushchev's Plot
Against Beria
1981-1982
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Katalog "Superobjekte
des Superkomforts für Superleute"
1976
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American Painting after
the Socialist Revolution
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American Painting after
the Socialist Revolution
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Buchumov Painting
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Crete 30;000-10;000 BC
(The Golden Age)
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Crete 30;000-10;000 BC
(The Golden Age)
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Untitled
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Untitled
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Double Self-Portrait
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Fascist Shooting Girl
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The Russian Intellectual. Solzenitzen Meets Hans Boeke
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TransState
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Workman
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