The All-Russian and Soviet Art Thread

[oomarhatelier]

this thread is so beautiful and inspiring! thanks

[nextnewface]

YES! I love this thread!!!!

I will be sure to visit once I'm done with Finals. Funnily enough, I'm currently studying for my Russian Foreign Relations class

Really great pictures of fantastic architecture, please keep posting with personal pictures or things you have found elsewhere, I have a feeling this thread will become really interesting

[lunabella]

Originally Posted by seanutbutter

Here's two Soviet posters I've always liked. I'm not sure of the history behind them, even though I once read it, but maybe someone else will know.

The first poster says "no"; the second, "do not speak."

nytimes.com, secondthoughts.typepad.com

i think they are both satirical posters. the first promoting abstaining from alcohol and the second poking fun at the soviet practice of reporting "traitors" to the gorvernment. it transliterates roughly to "no yapping" - or translates to "keep your mouth shut."

[sethii]

I love Druzhba Holiday Center Hall RG It looks like a thorny UFO crash landed into the side of the hill

[sethii]

Vogue Paris
October 2006

"Poupees Russes" (Russian Dolls)

ph.Mario Testino
Models: Anna-Maria Urajevskaya,Natasha Poly,Sasha Pivovaroa,Tanya
Dziahileva,Vlada Roslyakova, Snejana Onopka







modopixaat.blogspot.com

[Royal-Galliano]

some pictures of stations from the moscow metro

Mayakovskaya (built 1938)



Komsomolskaya-Koltsevaya (opened 1952)


Arbatskaya (opened 1935)


Park Pobedy (Victory Park, opened 2003)

pictures from flickr.com

[sethii]

^ I love it! but most of the stations are not like those right?

here is a vid
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eRGuFwDA4WM

[GirlOfMyDreams]

Originally Posted by sethii

^ I love it! but most of the stations are not like those right?

here is a vid

I think that might be one of the stations made during the Cold War. Below is an excerpt from Wikipedia. I assume (since I have never been there), that "landmark stations" are prettier than the others, in a similar fashion to other metro systems around the world. All in all, the ones posted above are such beautiful examples of Russian architecture and art.

During the Cold War

The beginning of the Cold War led to the construction of a deep part of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. The stations on this line are very deep and were planned as shelters in the event of nuclear war. After finishing the line in 1953, the upper tracks between Ploshchad Revolyutsii and Kiyevskaya were closed and later reopened in 1958 as a part of the Filyovskaya Line. In the further development of the Metro, the term "stages" was not used any more, although sometimes the stations opened in 1957–1959 are referred to as the "fifth stage".
During the late 1950s, the architectural extravagance of new metro stations was significantly toned down, and decorations at some stations, like VDNKh and Alexeyevskaya, were greatly simplified compared with original plans. This was done on the orders of Nikita Khrushchev, who favoured a more spartan decoration scheme. A typical layout (which quickly became known as "Sorokonozhka" - "Centipede", which comes from the fact that early designs had 40 concrete columns in two rows) was developed for all new stations, and the stations were built to look almost identical, differing from each other only in colours of the marble and ceramic tiles. Most of these stations were built with simplified, cheaper technologies which were not always quite suitable and resulted in extremely utilitarian design. For example, walls paved with cheap and simplistic ceramic tiles proved to be susceptible to vibrations caused by trains, with some tiles eventually falling off. It was not always possible to replace the missing tiles with the ones of the same color, which eventually led to infamous "variegated" parts of the paving. Not until the mid-1970s the architectural extravagance was restored, and original designs once again became popular. However, newer design of "centipede" stations, with 26 columns with wider ranges between them and more sophisticated, continued to dominate.

[Sweet rus]

Originally Posted by sethii

^ I love it! but most of the stations are not like those right?

what a great thread

not all but most of the stations of Moscow metro, especially in the centre are very beautifully designed

[Sweet rus]

Arbatskaya station



bigger pic of Park Pobedi station



Sportivnaya station


wikimedia.org

[GirlOfMyDreams]

Great picutres Sweet Rus!

[Sweet rus]

oh and I forgot to add a source

wikimedia.org

[sister vladapeg]

Front of the grand palace of Petergoff, Peter the Great's estate outside St. Petersburg, showing a few of the zillions of fountains the estate has. Pics mine.

[espritDEcouture]

Most of the metros are very beautifully decorated, as you can see. They are wonderful examples of the ways Russians take much pride in the arts.
And, the metro is very fast too. Obviously, very much in contrast to the El here in Chicago....

[espritDEcouture]

Beautiful photos sister_vladapeg! It makes me pine for St. Petersburg!!