Washing in River by Yuri Skorikov
16x24 Giclée on Canvas floating frame
The Art of the Animal Gallery is offering limited high-quality giclée-on-canvas reproductions of two select Russian artists in our collection, Yuri Skorikov (1924) and Alexander Kremer (1958). Both painters were born in the Russian Federation and painted under strict supervision of the government. During the mid-to-late 20th Century, Russian artists were allowed to pursue their personal artistic endeavors for only limited months of the year. For the better part of their time, artists were strictly mandated to the creation and production of artwork exclusively for the Federation and dedicated to the promotion of communist ideology. These original paintings were created during their artistic “amnesty” periods. During the Khrushchev years, the artistic movement known as Russian Socialist Realism “…interpreted by many artists as an invitation to greater freedom of style and content,” gave rise to the Union of Artists of the USSR. The works of Skorikov and Kremer are representative of that artistic period and burgeoning artistic freedoms in Russia at that time.
