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Archangelsk’s Oldest Painter’s Socialist Realism Rebellion

From Marinni’s LiveJournal:

Erotica in art – subjects from Soviet life…

Gennadiy Semakov. Nude inside, 1960-80.

I can’t repost it, but I was going to post Chinese erotica on china.

[Note: the ceramic material, not the country]

[…] Gennadiy Semakov is 84, he is the oldest artist in Archangelsk. During the Soviet era, he painted the subjects he was allowed to, working women:

Pictures of Nenets life:

When it became possible, he started to paint nude and erotic paintings. There is a lot that is identifiable from the 60s, 70s and 80s in the pictures: furniture, crockery, wallpaper – all little details. Despite his age, he continues to paint that sort of subject and exhibit his work across the motherland.

Rustic scene (1994)

I’m all yours (1994)

A woman in demand (1995)

Everyday scene (1995)

Not life, but raspberries (1996)

Miss X (1996)

La Boheme (2004)

Secret Novel (2004)

A fan of Sergei Esenin’s poetry (2004)

Temptation (2008)

The difficulties of Kommunalkas (2009)

By the fire (2009)

In an intimate situation (2010)

One for the road (2012)

[…]

Comments from Marinni’s LiveJournal:

marinni:

Socialist Realism:)

l3lu:

The last picture (the one with the carnations of mourning) lead to sad thoughts about the fate of the artist…

vitta_t:

Thank you very much! It’s all great, both the pictures and the names. I loved it, really )))

rellapinka:

The lady in the fur coat particularly touched my soul, somehow)))
Thank you very much, you lifted my mood))

costarostov:

Interesting

joeck_12:

How lovely!

irisroz52:

This is wonderful! A whole layer of memories))) Thank you for your wonderful posts!

natalia_jaffa:

It’s funny that the men in the pictures look like the General Secretaries of the Communist Party in their youth. In the first, the hero looks like a young Gorbachev, the 8th, a young Stalin, the 9th, Brezhnev)))

peter_hrumov:

Apparently he’s only ever seen one woman naked…

vyshivanka: (responding to above)

Well I think they’re all very different

zatusin:

The names are ace :)