Illustration for the story by Saltykov Shchedrin. He illustrated Saltykov Shchedrin’s “The History of a City,” keeping a satirical and grotesque tone of the author.Įvgeny Sidorkin. If Kalmykov created the aesthetics of fantastic images and was a lone genius who had nothing to do with Soviet reality, then Sidorkin, on the contrary, updated the classics. In the collection of Norton Dodge, great attention is paid to such epoch-making masters from Kazakhstan, such as Sergey Kalmykov, Pavel Zaltsman, Evgeny Sidorkin, who were the successors of the Russian avant-garde and the powerful academic school, who, by the will of fate, linked their life and work with Kazakhstan. He was born in Tashkent, but lived and worked in Alma-Ata. But the collection includes the now almost forgotten name of Boris Chuvylko, an artist who specialized in book graphics and monumental art. Salikhitdin Aitbaev, a very powerful and bright artist, who also boldly and interestingly experimented with form and color, did not get into the collection. It collects, preserves, researches, and exhibits world-class works of art, providing the university community and its diverse regional, national, international audiences an intimate experience with the visual art.Īs they pursued clearly classic forms, the connection with their native culture and land remained, giving their work a unique aspect of oriental flavor. The Zimmerli Art Museum is one of the largest and most distinguished university-based museums in the United States. The collection includes art made in Russia, as well as many examples of nonconformist art produced in the Soviet republics, including Central Asian countries. This encyclopedic array of nonconformist art extends from about 1956 to 1986, spanning a period from the beginning of Khrushchev’s cultural “thaw” to the advent of Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika. More than 20,000 works, by close to 1,000 artists, reveal a culture that defied the politically imposed conventions of Socialist Realism. The Dodge Collection is the largest collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art in existence. The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art was donated to Rutgers University in the mid-1990s, where it is on permanent display at the university’s Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.
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