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Self Portrait
Timofeev
1984
Oil on Canvas

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Look closely for images depicting hatred for authoritarianism. Artists that publically unveiled their opposition to the culture and government supporting it, were imprisoned and sentenced to death. Very few artists took the risk to express themselves freely, and there is little such artwork extant, as the authorities destroyed what they could lay their hands on. This beautiful and heart-wrenching oil painting shows the underbelly of social realism, as one of a few that ponders human rights and survived the brutality of the Soviet era.
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Oil on Canvas

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Sergeeva
1950
Oil on Canvas

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Gremitskih
1940
Oil on Canvas

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