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Who painted it?
Who painted “Defence of Sebastopole”?
“Defence of Sebastopole” was painted by Aleksandr Deyneka in 1942. Where to see it: Russian Museum.
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What to look for
Socialist Realism: confident, academic realism about happy workers, collective farms, leaders and Soviet daily life; Social Realism criticises society instead of celebrating it.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deyneka (20 May 1899 – 12 June 1969) was a Soviet painter, graphic artist and sculptor, regarded as one of the most important Russian modernist figurative painters of the first half of the 20th century. Wikipedia
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More by Aleksandr Deyneka
- “Expanse”, 1944
- “Relay race on the Garden Ring”, 1947
- “The defense of Petrograd”, 1928
- “Future Pilots”, 1938
- “Donbass”, 1924
- “Work, build and don't weep”, 1933
- “Who will defeat whom”, 1932
- “Gagarin's Day in Paris”, 1962