In 1970-s, the new generation of artists emerged, and their work affected the artistic developments of today. Youth subculture started forming in those years. The march of time was changing, as well as psyche of the society. The ‘Soviet hero’ assuring the industrial success of the country was gradually dislodged with a more complex person striving ‘to get to the very essence in work and in love’. The severity and determination of the artists of 1960-s gave way to meditativeness, elaborated symbolic generalisation and aspiration for revealing deep intimate primordium. The style of the paintings was oriented towards the Renaissance art. At the same time, the work of the artists of the 1970-s spread out a broad panorama of artistic styles and movements, and pieces opening a special world as if viewed with the eyes of a child or of a naïve painter stand out among all the new paintings.
This is exactly what we can see in the painting The Rising Generation of Moscow by Ilya Pravdin. He was born in 1944, and spent all his life in Moscow. The artist created this painting from the collection of Tyumen Museum and Educational Society in 1978. In parallel, he was working on the allegoric painting Presentation. Old Legend currently kept by the State Russian Museum.
In the painting The Rising Generation of Moscow the artist depicted students in the middle of a snow-covered court against the building of the Journalism Department of Moscow State University in the background. Several staff-age minor figures are animating the background.
In the middle distance, we can see chatting street cleaners in orange vests, and in the foreground separated from all the space of the painting by the road — a flock of young people having a lively discussion. The artist aspired to convey the image of the new age and the new generation to the audience. That is why he selected such expressive style: distorted proportions and violated single-point perspective, excessive focus on certain characteristic features of the students rising to grotesque. We cannot see huge unexplored spaces like in the paintings of the artists of the preceding decades. Instead, we can see a closed crony world.
This is exactly what we can see in the painting The Rising Generation of Moscow by Ilya Pravdin. He was born in 1944, and spent all his life in Moscow. The artist created this painting from the collection of Tyumen Museum and Educational Society in 1978. In parallel, he was working on the allegoric painting Presentation. Old Legend currently kept by the State Russian Museum.
In the painting The Rising Generation of Moscow the artist depicted students in the middle of a snow-covered court against the building of the Journalism Department of Moscow State University in the background. Several staff-age minor figures are animating the background.
In the middle distance, we can see chatting street cleaners in orange vests, and in the foreground separated from all the space of the painting by the road — a flock of young people having a lively discussion. The artist aspired to convey the image of the new age and the new generation to the audience. That is why he selected such expressive style: distorted proportions and violated single-point perspective, excessive focus on certain characteristic features of the students rising to grotesque. We cannot see huge unexplored spaces like in the paintings of the artists of the preceding decades. Instead, we can see a closed crony world.
