Harvest Celebration demonstrates a satirical view of Soviet rigidity and social realism and embraces sexuality and lascivious behavior for fun. The subject is a send-up of the farm collective as an agricultural paradise pictured in official Soviet art, such as Feodor Sytskov’s’ Day Off at the Kolkhoz (1937)
Featured Image: Vladimir Dubosarsky and Alexander Vinogradov. Harvest Celebration (1995). oil on canvas
See Vern Swanson. Hidden Treasures: Russian and Soviet Impressionism 1930-the 1970s. Anne Applebaum. Stalin’s War on Ukraine (2017)