The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name Academy of the Three Noblest Arts. Elizabeth of Russia renamed it the Imperial Academy of Arts and commissioned a new building, completed 25 years later in 1789 by the Neva River. The academy promoted the neoclassical style and technique, and sent its promising students to European capitals for further study. Training at the academy was virtually required for artists to make successful careers.
Sergei Bugaev "Afrika" is a Russian artist.
The term Soviet Nonconformist Art refers to Soviet art produced in the former Soviet Union from 1953 to 1986 outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism. Other terms used to refer to this phenomenon are counterculture, "underground art" or "unofficial art".
Leonid Sokov was a Russian nonconformist artist and sculptor. He primarily lived and worked in New York City.
Marat Aleksandrovich Gelman is a Russian collector, gallerist, and an op-ed columnist. The former director of PERMM contemporary art museum in Perm. The deputy director of Channel One from June 2002 to February 2004. A political consultant, a co-founder of the Foundation for Effective Politics, and a member of Russia's Public Chamber.
Nikolai Efimovich Timkov was a Soviet Russian painter, Honored Artist of Russian Federation, and a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists. He lived and worked in Leningrad and is regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting, worldwide known for his landscape paintings.
Irina Ivanovna Getmanskaya is a Soviet, Russians painter and art teacher, living and working in Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting.
Yuri Nilovich Tulin -was a Soviet Russian painter and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. He lived and worked in Leningrad and is regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portraits and historical paintings.
Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko was a Russian Soviet realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Soviet art is a form of visual art produced after the October Socialist Revolution of 1917 in Soviet Russia (1917—1922) and the Soviet Union (1922—1991), when the short-lived Russian Republic was overthrown and replaced. This led to an artistic and cultural shift within Russia and the Soviet Union as a whole, including a new focus on Socialist Realism in officially approved art.
Emíl Wíesel – a painter, museum curator and a board member of the Imperial Academy of Arts, Russia, organizer of international art exhibitions, councilor of Hermitage and Russian museum and Legion of Honor holder. During soviet times he was an expert in Russian and Western fine arts and sculpture in the Glavnauka museum department.
Aidan Salahova is an Azerbaijani and Russian artist, gallerist and public person. In 1992 she founded the Aidan Gallery in Moscow. Salahova's works can be found in many private and state collections including the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Francois Pinault Foundation, Teutloff Museum and the Boghossian Foundation; in private collections of I. Khalilov, Matan Uziel family collection, P-K. Broshe, T. Novikov, V. Nekrasov, V. Bondarenko and others. At the 2011 Venice Biennale, Salahova's name hit the headlines when her work was politically censored.
Igor Alekseevich Novikov, also Igor Alexejewitsch Nowikow, (Russian): Новиков, Игорь Алексеевич is a Swiss- Russian painter, art theorist, philosopher, a bbrght representative of sotsarta, member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Art Igor Novikov belongs to one of the areas of postmodern art, Sots Art. He belongs to the generation of Moscowian Soviet Nonconformist Art painters who have been shaped by the demise of the Soviet Union. Igor Novikov creates his own style of drawing, his philosophy in painting, his own direction – suggestisms.
Vitaly Pushnitsky is a Russian artist. He is considered one of Russia's leading contemporary artists. He is based in Saint-Petersburg, Russia and is internationally recognized as a painter, sculptor, graphic artist and as a creator of installations, art objects and multimedia.
(E-E) Evgenij Kozlov (Russian: Евгений Козло́в, tr. Yevgueni Kozlov, IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj kɐˈzlof] is a Russian artist living in Berlin. Known chiefly as a founder of the art group "New Artists", perhaps the most influential art phenomenon in the Soviet Union in its last decade, he works under the artist’s name of E-E which has been his sole signature since 2005. Since 2017, he has been adding People as a second signature to most of his works, stressing the universal character of his approach to art.
Alexander Romanovich Oligerov(born February 22, 1965, Temirtau, Russia) is a Russian artist and a member of the Russian Union of Artists.
Dmitry Kawarga born in Moscow, Russia is a Russian artist. Kawarga began working in his own style of "biomorphism" striving to create a synthesis of science, art and technology. His art is featured in numerous museums and is part of the permanent collection of Erarta, Russia's largest private museum of contemporary art located in Saint Petersburg.
Andrey Kimovich Esionov is a Russian painter and graphic artist, who paints portraits and cityscapes. He is academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honorary Academician of the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts and Drawing, a member of the Russian Artistic Union of Painters (1995), the Moscow Artists' Association of International Art Fund, and the Union of Russian Artists.
Georgy (Gustav) Konstantinovich Guryanov was a Soviet and Russian musician and artist.
Valery Andreevich Mishin is a Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist, poet and writer.
