CTI 218 Exam 2
-The official style of USSR whose goal was to promote socialism by showing depicting a world
transfigured.
-Life in its revolutionary form, showing what life would be following the attainment of socialism.
-meant to uplift and educate citizens - ANS-Socialist Realism
-established April 1932
-dispensed payment for art and gave rewards
-bureaucratized art and created monoculture
-controlled artistic production
-persecuted avant-garde art - ANS-Artistic unions
average person who does something heroic/overcomes challenge to build the future -
ANS-Positive heroes
leading documentary maker, established "Kino-Pravda" short films about real-life and created
new film techniques - ANS-Dziga Vertov (1896-1954)
-Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage to appeal to emotion
-considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures -
ANS-Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948)
-directed by Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein
-is a propaganda film bolstered the communist movement in the Soviet Union after the
Bolsheviks' 1917 overthrow of the czar
-class-conscious revolutionary propaganda
-regarded as one of the greatest films
-20th anniversary of the Potemkin uprising- proof that troops could be counted on to join the
proletariat in overthrowing the old order - ANS-Battleship Potemkin (1925)
-classic Socialist realist movie
-theme: party played fundamental role in Russia's revolutionary history & heroic acts serve party
and better ppl under developing virtues
-inspired historical films in late 1930s - ANS-Chapaev (1934)
-Ministry of film, selected films for Stalin and translated
- released 1950 film "Zhukhovskii" without Stalin's approval - ANS-Ivan Bolshakov
-traditional religious images that illiterate peasants understood.
-objects of instruction with rigid stylistic conventions
-had specific placements and order to universe - ANS-icon
, -esteemed highest art form in Medieval Ages
-depicts what cannot be seen in nature, inverse perspective
-compared to Western styles of contemporary art w/ linear perspective - ANS-Andrei Rublev,
"Holy Trinity"
-mid to late 1800s
-people upset with peasants treatment
-angry at Imperial Academy of Art b/c they believed it wasn't Russian
-13 painters and 1 sculpture from society
-painted subjects in themes of Russian reality
-shows peasants/ordinary ppl in a sympathetic way
-target audience: educated society - ANS-Itinerants/Wanderers
-Russian realist, itinerant painter who showed peasants in a sympathetic manner, critical of
tsarist oppression
-painted Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581 - ANS-Il'ia Repin (late 1800s,
early 1900s)
-1920 painting
-avant garde style that was an artistic experimentation
-served iconic function to educate tenants of socialism
-close to iconographic image of Mary and suggested October revolution is world made perfect -
ANS-Kuz'ma Petrov-Vodkin, "Petrograd in 1918" (aka "Petrograd Madonna")
-was set to become the architecture center of Moscow and international view of Soviet power
-location was Cathedral of Christ the Savior
-winning design by Iofan: grand scale and colossal w/ giant statue of Lenin on top
-no real progress on it, constantly redesign until mid 1950s
-Cathedral rebuilt in 1990s, testament to Soviet failing - ANS-Palace of Soviets
Get hold of "dostat" - ANS-buy "kupit" replaced by
deficit goods were difficult to get hold of - ANS-Difficult to get hold of "trudno dostat"
classes of food, clothes, products in short supply - ANS-deficit goods "defitsitnye tovary"
perhaps bag of string that ppl carried on hand in case they came across something difficult to
get your hands on - ANS-Avos'ka
getting goods from informal markets b/c of unreliable shopping - ANS-On the left "Na levo"
people with knowledge could get you connections - ANS-Connections "Svyazi"
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