Development of Penza art school in 1938–1964: the role of the regional branch of the Union of Painters
- Authors: Anshakov E.A.1, Barinova E.P.2
-
Affiliations:
- Samara Campus of Moscow City University
- Samara National Research University
- Issue: No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 139-150
- Section: PAGES OF THE HISTORY OF PENZA REGION
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2072-3024/article/view/296025
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.21685/2072-3024-2025-1-12
- ID: 296025
Cite item
Full Text
Abstract
Background. The establishment of the state monopoly in the sphere of art has changed the vector and trajectories of the development of the artistic process. For a long time opposite tendencies coexisted in the ideological campaigns of the state and in the practice of real artistic life. The purpose of the research is to reveal the specifics of creation and activity of Penza branch of the organisation “Union of Soviet Painters”. Materials and methods. System-structural method was used to study the ways of interaction between the authorities and creative artistic intelligentsia, to identify the effectiveness of the regional branch. The comparative-historical method allowed to reveal the specificity of activity of the regional branch of the “Union of Soviet Рainters”. Results. The study showed the influ ence of ideological campaigns on the themes and stylistics of creative works. The direc tions of individual creative searches of Penza artists were revealed. Organisational difficul ties of the department’s activity were noted: insufficient funding, lack of premises for crea tive work and irregularity of orders. The close connection of the department with the art school, which provided the personnel potential of the department, had a positive influence. Penza branch demonstrated organisational stability and a high level of participation of crea tive intellectuals in exhibitions. Conclusions. Penza artists contributed to the development of Soviet art. The management of Penza branch and the regional authorities exercised ideo logical control over the work of artists, but did not completely suppress individual artistic endeavours. Organisational problems of the branch and lack of material resources hindered the development of Penza art school, but the strong connection with the art school ensured relative stability.
About the authors
Evgeny A. Anshakov
Samara Campus of Moscow City University
Author for correspondence.
Email: anshackov.evgenij@yandex.ru
Postgraduate student of the sub- department of history and socio- political disciplines
(76 Stara-Zagora street, Samara, Russia)Ekaterina P. Barinova
Samara National Research University
Email: rfnz25@yandex.ru
Doctor of historical sciences, professor, professor of the sub- department of national history and historiography
(34 Moskovskoye highway, Samara, Russia)References
- Ioganson B.I. The first thirty years of the Moscow Union of Artists (1932–1962). Myths, Realities, Paradoxes. Iskusstvoznaniye = Art studies. 2012;(3/4):537–562. (In Russ.)
- Severyukhin D.Ya. The Union of Soviet Artists and the practical side of artistic life in the USSR. Vestnik Russkoy khristianskoy gumanitarnoy akademii = Bulletin of the Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy. 2023;24(2):298–311. (In Russ.)
- Kim M.P. Kommunisticheskaya partiya – organizator kul′turnoy revolyutsii v SSSR = The Communist Party is the organizer of the cultural revolution in the USSR. Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1955:340. (In Russ.)
- Iz istorii partiyno-gosudarstvennogo rukovodstva kul′turnym stroitel′stvom v SSSR: sb. st. = From the history of party and state leadership of cultural development in the USSR: collected articles. Moscow: Institut istorii SSSR, 1983:221. (In Russ.)
- Lebedyanskiy M.S. Zhivopis′, rozhdennaya Oktyabrem: Stanovleniye i razvitiye so-tsialisticheskogo realizma v russkoy, sovetskoy zhivopisi. 1920-e – 1930-e gg. = Painting born in october: formation and development of socialist realism in russian, soviet painting. 1920s – 1930s. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1986:249. (In Russ.)
- Konev V.P. Soviet Art Culture from the 1930s to the 1980s (theoretical and historical analysis): DSc dissertation. Novosibirsk, 2004:415. (In Russ.)
- Polishchuk E.A. Georgiy Konstantinovich Savitskiy. 1887–1949 = Georgy Konstanti-novich Savitsky. 1887–1949. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1961:264. (In Russ.)
- Chesnokov V.K. Vadim Dmitriyevich Falileyev = Vadim Dmitriyevich Falileyev. Mos-cow: Izobrazitel′noye iskusstvo, 1975:23. (In Russ.)
- Nekhoroshev Yu.I. Ivan Silych Goryushkin-Sorokopudov = Ivan Silych Goryushkin-Sorokopudov. Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1968:81. (In Russ.)
- Fine arts. Penzenskaya oblast′ za sorok let Sovetskoy vlasti. 1917–1957 = Penza Region for forty years of Soviet power. 1917–1957. Penza: Knizhnoye izd-vo, 1957:537–541. (In Russ.)
- Khudozhniki Penzy: al′bom = Artists of Penza: album. Leningrad: Khudozhnik, 1964:51. (In Russ.)
- Filina Yu.S. The Community of Soviet Artists in 1917–1927: Historical and Genera-tional Analysis: PhD dissertation. Moscow, 2023:360. (In Russ.)
- Ryabov A.V. Khudozhnik i vlast′ (bor′ba i sotrudnichestvo, 1918–1932 gg.) = Artist and Power (struggle and cooperation, 1918–1932). Saint Petersburg: Sankt-Peterburgskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet, 2000:310. (In Russ.)
- Yankovskaya G.A. Iskusstvo, den′gi i politika: khudozhnik v gody pozdnego stalinizma = Art, Money and Politics: The Artist in the Late Stalinist Years. Perm: Permskiy gosu-darstvennyy universitet, 2007:311. (In Russ.)
- Yankovskaya G.A. Soviet Art in the Years of Late Stalinism and the “Ordinary Viewer”. Magistra Vitae: elektronnyy zhurnal po istoricheskim naukam i arkheologii = Magistra Vitae: Electronic Journal of Historical Sciences and Archaeology. 2018;(1): 39–45. (In Russ.)
- Zezina M.R. Soviet artistic intelligentsia and power in the 1950–1960s: DSc disserta-tion. Moscow, 2000:344. (In Russ.)
- Zezina M.R. Creative unions as corporate organizations of the Soviet artistic intelligent-sia. Uchenyye zapiski RAGS = Proceedings of the Russian Academy of State Administra-tion. 2009;1(IX):37–56. (In Russ.)
- Mu Ke. Transformation of images of Soviet fine art in the post-war period (1945–1960). Chelovek i kul′tura = Person and culture. 2017;(5):45–55. (In Russ.)
- Zykova A.V. The authorities and local branches of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR in the 1950s–1970s (by the materials from the Southern Urals). Izvestiya Altayskogo gosudar-stvennogo universiteta = Proceedings of Altay State Unversity. 2009;(4/4):85–88. (In Russ.)
- Mikhaylova M.V. Unions of Artists of Eastern Siberia and their activities in 1971–1980 (by the example of the Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk and Chita organizations). Vestnik Ir-kutskogo gosudarstvennogo tekhnicheskogo universiteta = Bulletin of Irkutsk State Technical University. 2012;(1):258–263. (In Russ.)
- Kuznetsova N.A. Creative unions of the Middle Volga region in the post-war years (1946–1953). Izvestiya Samarskogo nauchnogo tsentra Rossiyskoy akademii nauk = Proceedings of Samara Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 2011;13(3):156–159. (In Russ.)
- Khaplekhamitov R.B. Tatar creative intelligentsia and power (1944–1965): PhD dis-sertation. Kazan, 2008:200. (In Russ.)
- Mel’nichenko O.V., Sukhova (eds.). Istoriya Penzenskogo kraya: monografiya: v 3 t. T. 3. Penzenskiy kray v XX – nachale XXI veka. 2-e izd. ispr. i dop. = History of penza region: monograph: in 3 volumes. Volume 3. Penza region in th 20th – early 21st centu-ries. The 2nd edition, revised and supplemented. Penza: Institut regional’nogo razvitiya Penzenskoy oblasti, 2024:767. (In Russ.)
- Vazerova A.G., Koroleva L.A., Miku N.V. Istoriya i kul′tura Penzenskogo kraya XX veka: monografiya = History and culture of Penza region of the twentieth century: monograph. Penza: PGUAS, 2015:192. (In Russ.)
- Gosudarstvennyy arkhiv Penzenskoy oblasti (GAPO). F. P-2654. Op. 1. D. 7 = State Archive of Penza region. Fund P-2654. Item 1. File 7. (In Russ.)
- GAPO. F. P-2355. Op. 1. D. 80 = State Archive of Penza region. Fund P-2355. Item 1. File 80. (In Russ.)
- GAPO. F. P-2654. Op. 1. D. 8 = State Archive of Penza region. Fund P-2654. Item 1. File 8. (In Russ.)
- Gosudarstvennyy arkhiv noveyshey istorii Ul′yanovskoy oblasti. F. 6031. Op. 1. D. 9 = State Archive of Ulyanovsk region. Fund 6031. Item 1. File 9. (In Russ.)
- Gosudarstvennyy arkhiv Respubliki Tatarstan. F. 7064. Op. 1. D. 8a = State Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan. Fund 7064. Item 1. File 8a. (In Russ.)
Supplementary files
