Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there.
Soviet nonconformist art was Soviet art produced in the former Soviet Union outside the control of the Soviet state started in the Stalinist era, in particular, outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism. Other terms used to refer to this phenomenon are Soviet counterculture, "underground art" or "unofficial art".
Nathan Isaevich Altman Russian: Натан Исаевич Альтман, romanized: Natan Isayevich Altman; Ukrainian: Натан Ісайович Альтман; December 22 [O.S. December 10] 1889 – December 12, 1970) was a Russian avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator, who was born in Ukraine in the Russian Empire and worked in France and the Soviet Union.
Oleg Vassiliev was a Russian painter associated with the Soviet Nonconformist Art style. Vassiliev emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York City in 1990 and later lived and worked in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Durdy Bayramov was a Turkmen academician and artist who was awarded the highest honorary title in his country: "People's Artist of Turkmen SSR". In his native Turkmen language, Durdy Bayramov's name is simply "Durdy Bayram". The name "Bayram" means "celebration" in Turkic languages.
Fyodor Zakharovich Zakharov was a Soviet and Ukrainian painter. He was awarded the title People's Painter of Ukrainian SSR in 1978, and the Shevchenko National Prize in 1987, the highest Ukrainian award for art and literature.
Oleg Sergeyevich Prokofiev was an artist, sculptor and poet, and the son of composer Sergei Prokofiev.
Yuri Mikhailovich Neprintsev was a Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist, art teacher, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, and a member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. He is regarded by art historian Sergei V. Ivanov as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting, most famous for his genre and battle paintings.
Oleg Leonidovich Lomakin was a Russian Soviet realist painter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg. He was regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Alek Rapoport was a Ukrainian Nonconformist artist, art theorist, and teacher.
Halyna Olexandrivna Zubchenko was a Ukrainian painter, muralist, social activist and member of the Club of Creative Youth. She joined the Union of Artists of Ukraine in 1965.
Lola Vyacheslavovna Lonli is a Russian painter working in the style of Russian cosmism. She is a member of the Artists Trade Union of Russia and The International Federation of Artists. Her works are in permanent collections of the International Centre of Roerichs (Moscow), The V. V. Vereshchagin Mykolaiv Art Museum, Simferopol Art Museum, and the art museum of Gorlovka. In 2013, her paintings were included in the catalogue Russian cosmists of the 20th and 21st centuries published by International Centre of Roerichs. Lonli's paintings are extensively exhibited throughout Russia and Ukraine; she has had more than fifty solo exhibitions and has participated in more than one hundred group exhibitions. She created her own method of art education and established the Treasure of the World art school.
Stepan Mamchich, was a Crimean painter, seascape painter. One of the representatives of Cimmerian Art School.
The Aivazovsky National Art Gallery is a national art museum in Feodosia, Crimea, one of the oldest art museums in Ukraine. The first exhibition was privately organised by Ivan Aivazovsky's in his house in 1845. The basis collection included his 49 paintings. In 1880 an additional exhibition hall was attached to the house. The gallery became the third museum in the Russian Empire, after the Hermitage Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery. After Aivazovsky's death in 1900, the ownership of the gallery was transferred to the city according to his testament.
Oleg Kharch /Kharchenko(born 1963 in Sumy) is a Ukrainian visual and sound artist working in the figurative, new Ukrainian naive (Quasi- naive), post-conceptual direction in the ultra contemporary art movement "#BULLBASKA".
Lev Meshberg was a Soviet and American painter. Meshberg's paintings are autobiographical, filled with symbols and enigmas relating to his own existence. A figurative painter and colorist, his paintings are a combination of readily discernible objects and almost ethereal renderings of other objects with dream-like light and color. He worked still another dimension into his art, depth - a physical depth - achieved by build-up of pigments and other materials to add a sculptural dimension to his paintings. The subtlety of color and true originality of composition and uniqueness of his three-dimensional method of painting brought Meshberg world-wide attention. His works were widely exhibited and purchased by numerous museums and private collectors all over the world.
Igor Gubskiy was a Ukrainian artist, rated 4A in the United Art Rating with individual style and relevant price recommendation. Igor Gubskiy is one of the few artists noted by State Tretyakov Gallery, as a bright representative of the Ukrainian school of the XX century, together with Tatyana Yablonskaya and Andriy Kotska. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Tatiana Godovalnikova is a Russian contemporary artist. Museums in Russia, Germany and Japan as well as private collectors in Israel, Poland, Great Britain, Germany and Switzerland have Godovalnikova’ s art. Her works are presented also at Sevastopol Art Museum and the State Museum of Heroic Defence and Liberation of Sevastopol. In 1992 she became a member of the Union of Artists of Russia and the International Association of Art – UNESCO.
Oleg Sohanievich – Ukrainian-American abstract artist, sculptor and poet best known for his escape from the USSR on an inflatable rowboat to Turkey.
