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Title:	Paintings by Geli Korzhev: Soviet Idealist+Iconoclast
Date:	2/27/2021 - 6/13/2021
Address:	The Museum of Russian Art, 5500 Stevens Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55419
Location:	Minneapolis, MN
Hours:	Monday – Friday: 10 am – 5 pm, Saturday: 10 am – 4 pm, Sunday: 1 pm – 5 pm
Cost/Cover:	TMORA Members - Free, Adults: $13, Seniors 65+: $11, Students: $5, Children (0-13): Free
Web Page:	https://tmora.org/2021/02/04/paintings-by-geli-korzhev-sovie ...
Contact Info:	612-821-9045

Details:

The exhibition presents numerous oil paintings by the prominent Soviet and post-Soviet era artist, drawn from private American collections. Geli Korzhev (1925-2012) was one of the leading masters of post-WWII Soviet art. He received his art training at Moscow’s prestigious Surikov Art Institute, graduating from the studio of Sergei Gerasimov in 1950. Korzhev entered the Soviet art scene at a time when the nation was recovering from the devastating war, and, at the same time, bidding farewell to Stalin’s grim legacy (after 1953). A son of his era, Korzhev developed his own style, defined by him as “social realism,” that sought to eliminate the propagandistic posture, artificiality, and reality-bending politics of Stalinist-era art. His striking canvases focus on the common people – in an attempt to cleanse the varnish of propaganda from the visualizations of reality remind the viewer of the ‘true’’ socialism, as he envisioned it.