Russians at the RA.

Posted on Jan 12, 2017

Revolution is coming… starts 11 February

See the wildly inventive art forged in Soviet Russia in the face of increasing repression in Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932.

100 years ago, as Russia teetered on the brink of revolution, its artists were creating some of the most exciting and experimental art anywhere in the world.

At first, the new regime fanned the flames of creativity that flourished across all forms of Russian art, but by the end of 1932 Stalin had violently drawn the Iron Curtain down on creative freedom.

Now, we bring together Russia’s early Soviet masterpieces – paintings by the likes of Kandinsky, Malevich and Chagall, exceptional photography and graphic work, brilliantly original porcelain, and pioneering film-making – in the first comprehensive survey of a turbulent 15-year period when revolution was followed by mounting state control.

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Exhibition opens 11 February 2017. Friends of the RA go free.

 

To find out more go to   www.royalacademy.org.uk

(taken from RA website)