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Portrait
of Lenin
Isaak Brodsky (1884-1939) was one of the young artists attracted
to the neo-realist group that called itself the Association of
Artists of Revolutionary Russia. The primary goal of the group
was to depict revolutionary Russia by painting realistic canvases
devoted to such topics as Russian workers, soldiers, and political
figures. In their return to tendentiousness, they consciously
attempted to revive the traditions of the Wanderers. Brodsky made
something of a specialty for himself in paintings of the greatest
revolutionary leader of them all, Vladimir Ilich Lenin. Brodsky
clearly strove to humanize rather than monumentalize the leader,
as this "homey" picture of Lenin at work illustrates.
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