maandag 8 april 2013

The Soviet Myth

In the "Drents Museum Assen" I saw a great exhibition of Socialistic Realism 1932-1960 from the Soviet Union during the Stalin dictatorship. The exhibition contains about 70 paintings idealising the Soviet society.

Some of the paintings were huge as this one in which Stalin is adorated by his people.

 The sculptures had also to be realistic, men and woman fighting for a better society.

But the title of the exhibition is the "Soviet Myth" and there was a second exhibition "Together and Alone" which showed the daily life in Russia from 1900 untill now. People didn't have such a good life as the rulers tried them to believe. This was a photobook of a Russian family, on the right side you see three photos of aunt Fania who studied medicins in Berlin in 1911. The second photo shows her with her husband in the thirtees, both of them were send to the Goelag, a detention camp, where her husband died. The third photo shows her in 1949 when she returned from the camp. She had never come over it and died short after Stalin died. She had a miserable life.

9 opmerkingen:

  1. Nice display. It's too bad that Stalin never adored his people.

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  2. Its so sad after all Fania went through and then to have freedom and a bad life. That last photo of her is very sad - a sad ending for her life. The museum pieces are splendid and this was a really super post. Thanks for the time it took for you to present this. I love history.

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  3. Mooie foto's. Ik ben ook nog van plan om de Sovjet Mythe te gaan bezoeken, leuk om dit alvast te zien!

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  4. A stirring exhibit, full of beautiful pieces and the sad history as well.
    V

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  5. interesting!
    that statue reminds me of similar statues i saw in budapest...
    i read poetin was in amsterdam today, and there were quite some demonstrations against him....

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  6. CaT,
    Yes, a very short visit with lot of demontrations of homo's and Amnesty. I don't think he was impressed...

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  7. Sad..I was always taught...Work hard and life will reward you. Certainly wasn't true in her case.

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  8. A very impressive exhibition Marianne, The sculpture is fantastic, I think there may have been many unhappy people in Russia.

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  9. We have a museum of Russian Art in the Twin Cities and through their varied exhibits I have found quite a lot of variety of styles in that country, depending upon the historical and political periods.

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