Art in Russia
Art in Russia is a student-powered project dedicated to educating English-speakers about achievements in the arts made in Russia and countries of the former USSR. Art in Russia facilitates and encourages students to study art at home and abroad as part of a study abroad program. Art in Russia is hosted and sponsored by The School of Russian and Asian Studies.Featured Art Programs
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The Malevich Society Grants: 2012
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The Russian Psyche (Avail. Year-Round)
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Acting in Russia (Summer Program)
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Art and Museums in Russia (Summer Program)
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Featured Stories
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Dueling Demons: Mikhail Vrubel’s Demon Seated and Demon Downcast
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Baba, Proletarka and the Kolkhoznitsa: Soviet Depictions of Women in Anti-religious Posters
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May Events
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Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
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Marina Fedorova & The Lazarev Gallery
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Art Archive
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Dueling Demons: Mikhail Vrubel’s Demon Seated and Demon Downcast
Posted on May 8, 2012 | No CommentsThe Demon, as presented in art, has become a theme often employed to represent a madness that has developed within the artist. This demon can serve as both a muse... -
Baba, Proletarka and the Kolkhoznitsa: Soviet Depictions of Women in Anti-religious Posters
Posted on May 8, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper examines how the evolution of state policy from 1923-1933, toward women and religion was expressed in posters, one of the most important mediums of communicating policy to a... -
Marina Fedorova & The Lazarev Gallery
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsThe Lazarev Gallery wants you to come inside. Located near the Neva River on the 6thLine of Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg, the renovated historical building with tinted windows and assorted... -
The Legacy of Unofficial Art in St. Petersburg: The Case of Pushkinkaya-10 Art Center
Posted on April 11, 2012 | No CommentsOne must really have the desire to find the Pushkinskaya-10 Art Center if they are to visit it. Located in an otherwise inconspicuous courtyard off Ligovsky Prospect, it hides tucked... -
The New Museum
Posted on March 18, 2012 | No CommentsSettled in the historic district of St. Petersburg, the New Museum is the first private museum of its kind in St. Petersburg. Local businessman, Aslan Chekhoev, opened the museum from the... -
Hello Pasta! By Yeka Haski & The Nevsky 8 Art Center
Posted on March 18, 2012 | No CommentsThe Nevsky 8 Art Center, is an art supply shop, gift store, gallery, and café all in one. Located at the very beginning of Nevsky Prospect, just around the corner from... -
Socialist Realism
Posted on February 28, 2012 | No CommentsSocialist Realism was the official artistic movement of the U.S.S.R. It was attached not only to the revolution but to the forward momentum of the communist ideology and Soviet apparatus.... -
The Wanderers
Posted on February 21, 2012 | No CommentsChrist in the Desert, Kramskoi (1872) The Peredvizhniki, or The Wanderers, were a movement of Russian Realism born from the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1863. Under the rule of... -
Decadence
Posted on February 13, 2012 | No CommentsThe influence of French Decadent poetry on Russian literature and painting at the dawn of the 20th century– particularly Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal –resulted in morbid, taboo and demonic themes.... -
The Blue Rose
Posted on February 3, 2012 | No CommentsThe Blue Rose artists represented the second wave of Symbolist painting in 20th century Russia. They followed on the heels of the World of Art, but the two groups differed...