{"id":27736,"title":"Mass-Produced Reproductions of Soviet Paintings","dimensions":"","date_begin":null,"material":"","art_status_id":220,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":27,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection MHKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"MONOCULTURE Socialist Realism","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":20,"permalink":"reproductions-of-socialist-realism-paitings-x-11","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/063/159/medium_500/2020_Monoculture_Photo_M_HKA_cc_4.jpg?1602766767","cached_actor_names":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Other","nl":"Andere","fr":"Autre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/063/159/large/2020_Monoculture_Photo_M_HKA_cc_4.jpg?1602766767","poster_credits":"image: (c) M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtistic production in the Soviet Union operated as a great advertising machine. The obliteration of creative individuality and the triumph of totality is represented par excellence by the so-called \u0026lsquo;бригадный метод\u0026rsquo; (collective artistic method) which reached its peak in the mid-1940s to 1950s. The work of such brigades was based on the principle of division of labour. Often monumental in their scale, socialist realist artworks were created not primarily for museums, but for mass dissemination. The artworks, reproduced in huge quantities as lithographs and postcards, were thus available in the most remote corners of the USSR. Such reproductions often became part of the traditional \u0026lsquo;красный уголок\u0026rsquo; (which can be literally translated from Russian as \u0026lsquo;red corner\u0026rsquo;). Initially derived from the orthodox tradition of icon corners for worship, in Soviet times such spaces, allocated for ideological work, were decorated with red cloth and communist paraphernalia.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDe artistieke productie in de Sovjet-Unie opereerde als een geweldige reclamemachine. De vernietiging van de creatieve individualiteit en de triomf van de totaliteit worden perfect ge\u0026iuml;llustreerd door de zogenaamde \u0026lsquo;brigades\u0026rsquo; (collectieve) artistieke methode, die hun piek bereikten in de periode van midden jaren 1940 tot de jaren 1950. Het werk van zulke brigades was gebaseerd op het principe van arbeidsverdeling. Socialistisch-realistische werken, vaak monumentaal in omvang, werden niet in de eerste plaats gemaakt voor musea, maar voor massale verspreiding: de kunstwerken \u0026ndash; massaal gereproduceerd als litho\u0026rsquo;s of postkaarten \u0026ndash; waren verkrijgbaar in de meest afgelegen hoeken van de USSR. Dergelijke reproducties werden vaak opgenomen in de traditionele \u0026lsquo;krasni ugolok\u0026rsquo; (letterlijk \u0026#39;rode hoek\u0026#39;). Dergelijke ruimtes waren ge\u0026iuml;nspireerd op de orthodoxe huiselijke traditie van hoeken die speciaal werden voorbehouden voor de aanbidding van iconen. In de Sovjetperiode waren ze voorbehouden voor ideologische kunstwerken en werden ze versierd met rode stof en communistische parafernalia.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eLe r\u0026eacute;alisme socialiste \u0026eacute;tait un ph\u0026eacute;nom\u0026egrave;ne artistique et une \u0026laquo; m\u0026eacute;thode cr\u0026eacute;ative \u0026raquo; n\u0026eacute;e en Union sovi\u0026eacute;tique. Lors du premier congr\u0026egrave;s des \u0026eacute;crivains sovi\u0026eacute;tiques, en 1934, cette m\u0026eacute;thode a \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; \u0026eacute;rig\u0026eacute;e au rang de doctrine, seule pratique artistique autoris\u0026eacute;e ; elle a alors \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; appliqu\u0026eacute;e \u0026agrave; toutes les formes d\u0026rsquo;art. Elle n\u0026rsquo;avait pas principalement pour objet la r\u0026eacute;alit\u0026eacute;, mais le brillant avenir socialiste. Cette ambition utopique et la croyance en le potentiel transformateur de l\u0026rsquo;art, en plus de son fort caract\u0026egrave;re collectif, font du r\u0026eacute;alisme socialiste un projet esth\u0026eacute;tico-politique total et totalitaire. Les \u0026oelig;uvres socialistes-r\u0026eacute;alistes, souvent monumentales, n\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;taient pas principalement destin\u0026eacute;es aux mus\u0026eacute;es, mais \u0026agrave; la distribution : les \u0026oelig;uvres d\u0026rsquo;art, massivement reproduites sous forme de lithographies ou de cartes postales, \u0026eacute;taient disponibles m\u0026ecirc;me dans les coins les plus recul\u0026eacute;s de l\u0026rsquo;URSS. De telles reproductions \u0026eacute;taient souvent affich\u0026eacute;es dans le traditionnel Krasny ugolok (\u0026laquo; Coin rouge \u0026raquo;). Il s\u0026rsquo;agissait d\u0026rsquo;un espace, inspir\u0026eacute; par la tradition domestique orthodoxe, qui r\u0026eacute;servait un coin de la maison \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;adoration des ic\u0026ocirc;nes. \u0026Agrave; l\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;poque sovi\u0026eacute;tique, ce coin \u0026eacute;tait r\u0026eacute;serv\u0026eacute; aux \u0026oelig;uvres d\u0026rsquo;art id\u0026eacute;ologiques ; il \u0026eacute;tait d\u0026eacute;cor\u0026eacute; d\u0026rsquo;objets rouges et d\u0026rsquo;articles communistes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}