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Petrov-Vodkine Kuzma, Fantaisie (détail), 1925 Huile sur toile, 50 × 64,5 cm Musée Russe, Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie, © State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Exhibition
Rouge. — Art et utopie au pays des Soviets
20 Mar 2019 – 1 Jul 2019
Event times
The opening hours of the Grand Palais depend on the exhibitions or events that occur there
Cost of entry
Full rate €14.00 — Concessions €10.00
Address
- 3 avenue du Général Eisenhower
- Paris
Île-de-France - 75008
- France
About
The October revolution of 1917 led to an upheaval in the social order, the repercussions of which proved decisive in terms of artistic creativity. Many artists were committed to the communist cause and wanted to participate in the construction of the new society through their works. Led for the most part by genuine convictions, as with Mayakovsky, these artists held opposing ideas on what the art of socialism should be. From the end of the 1920s, such debates were silenced by the Stalinist regime.
This led to the gradual establishment of socialist realism, an aesthetic doctrine that came to govern all areas of creativity. Such debates were followed closely in capitalist countries: many artistic exchanges were established with the young Soviet Russia, which attracted intellectuals and artists curious to discover the «fatherland of socialism».
It is this story, with its tensions and its ups and downs, that the exhibition relates through a series of important works on loan from the major Russian museums and the Centre Pompidou; a history where material innovations and ideological constraints, inextricably linked, raise the question of a possible politicisation of the arts.
