Centuries of Art @ Your Library - The History of Soviet Realism February 25, 2008

Discover Russian Realism, a largely neglected 20th century art movement, in an illustrated talk by Lazare Gallery owner John Wurdeman IV on Monday, February 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Williamsburg Library Theatre, 515 Scotland Street. The program is part of the lecture series, "Centuries of Art @ Your Library," sponsored by This Century Art Gallery and Williamsburg Regional Library. Reservations are not needed for this free program. For more information, contact the library at (757) 259-4070 or This Century Art Gallery at (757) 229-4949.

Soviet Realism was the bi-product of an environment of cultural isolation in which Russian painting evolved without significant influence from the west. During this period, the greatest Russian Art Institutes, the Surikov Institute in Moscow and the Repin Institute in St. Petersburg, produced artists whose work surpassed the best natural and realist genre paintings produced during the century. At the highest level, artists of the Soviet Era painted with consummate technical adeptness. They took the finest traditions of great master artists of the past and built on their honored traditions. Lazare Gallery, located in Charles City County, exhibits exceptional works by some of the Soviet era's most remarkable artists.

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