1960
oil on canvas
159 õ 195
For the postwar generation of artists opposition to the totalitarian “official” world made the period of the “thaw” a time of search for a plastic tradition that would be suitable for the dramatic clashes of the contemporary world.
For Korzhev and his generation of painters the plastic equivalent was Realism, which they understood not only as a tradition in Russian art but as a professional school of technical mastery.
The picture The Artist was one of Korzhev’s programmatic works from the 1960s where all details have been adjusted and composed in accordance with nature and the laws of constructing an image. The narrative principle of sequential development is closely bound up with the psychological characterization of the main personages of the picture.
at 10, Krymsky Val, Hall 36
