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The exhibition “Venus Sovietica” that is timed to the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution and collected under the same roof more than 120 articles of painting, graphic arts, sculpture and applied arts opened in Saint Petersburg. It is devoted to women of the Soviet epoch. Among the exhibit there are famous masterpieces – paintings of Deineka, Samokhvalov, Pimenov, Shevchenko, Lebedev – and works of art that are unknown to the general public. One hall contains photographs of nude models – images, which were forbidden in the Soviet Union from 1930s.
In the period of the Soviet Union from 1917 till 1991 the woman’s role in the Russian society greatly increased. Artists, which were always inspired by women’s beauty, devoted many pieces of art to daughters of Eve. In this very time some unusual woman’s images were created, for example, the legendary and stirring “girl with an oar”. Girls with revolvers in leather jackets present the first years of the Soviet Union, and the industrialization epoch is embodied in buxom and practically lacking in gender features gymnasts, young communists and Metrostroi workers. But even under their overalls you can discern their sensual bodies and sexuality. More delicate and womanlike works of art (“Woman in a hammock” by Lebedev, “Night” by Alexander Deineka) obtained recognition not long ago.
All guests of the Nevsky Hotels Group will be able to visit the exhibition and to appreciate its masterpieces till March 10, 2008.
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