As conventional wisdom about the Cold War goes, art in the Soviet Union boiled down to a repressed, mass-produced naiveté and state-imposed classicism. Or did it? Alexey Ananiev, a 49-year-old, self-made Russian banking billionaire who owns around 6,000 works of Soviet realist art, has made it his mission to rehabilitate the Soviet Union as a fount of creativity. Mr. Ananiev prefers Soviet art’s uplifting images of confident athletes over rough-hewed portrayals of the human body—often seen as vulnerable, aging and flawed—by such…
Link: Billionaire Collector Alexey Ananiev Loves Socialist Realist Art
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