THE FORMATION OF SOCIALIST REALISM PAINTING: DISCUSSIONS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF SOVIET ART OF THE 1920'S-1930'S

In this article, the author considers the formation of ideological and artistic programmes of Socialist Realism painting of the 1920s and 1930s and proves that revolutionary ideology and the philosophy of nihilism, which actively rejected the entire thousand-year-old traditional Russian and European Christian culture and art as hostile and alien to the ideology of Soviet communism, served as the foundation for the artistic trends of the Soviet avant-garde.First and foremost, the continuity is ontological (fundamental) and extends beyond the revolutionary method and methodological approaches.This priority method, which contained aggressive revolutionary features in the early Soviet avant-garde, was later "softened" by relying on the traditions of Russian realism of the second half of the 19th century (Peredvizhniki) and became less aggressive in the Socialist Realism painting.