“If the depiction of the world does aid cognition, then only at the very earliest stages of human development, after which it already becomes either a direct hindrance to the growth of art or a class-based interpretation of it”

– Nikolay Punin, Fine arts Department, 1919.

The Soviet Fine Art Movement, that stemmed out from the soviet revolution in 1917 all the way until the soviet unions collapse in 1991 was a visual art style of ‘socialist Realism’. Taking away from traditional art and western influence, this movement explored the abstract use of shape, colour and composition to depict the “social reality” of the working class, labourers and soldiers, Used occasionally as propaganda.

Some artists from this movement include Antoine Pevsner, Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, Naum Gabo and Wassily Kandinsky.

examples include:

Its influence found its way into other areas such as Architecture, with the aesthetic of Brutalism emerging from it in the early 80s. Consisting of concrete bold buildings, with straight lines and modernist appearance, they played a factor economically as well due to poor improvements made by the government for workers housing.