Soviet historical painting in various ideological contexts

Abstract

The article analyzes the painting by artists A. Yar-Kravchenko and A. Zarubin, which the artists painted in 1948–1960. At the beginning, it depicted the meeting of I. Stalin with Soviet writers, which took place in the house of A. Gorky in 1932. Completing the picture under N. Khrushchev, the authors replaced Stalin with Gorky. The history of the painting and the history of the event depicted on it allows one analyze the impact of various ideological contexts on the work of socialist realism.