Word: peredvizhniki
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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...roots lay in the 19th century. If Modernism grew from Manet, Monet and Cezanne, Socialist Realism emerged from their conservative opposition -- the academic and narrative work that was the institutional art of Europe a century ago. In Russia the hugely popular landscapes and genre scenes of the Peredvizhniki, or Wanderers, led by Ilya Repin (1844-1930), were promoted as a mirror of the Russian soul by the most nationalistic of all 19th century Czars, Alexander III. Socialist Realism, violently nationalist in its rhetoric, inherited this aura...
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