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Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky
Russian artist
Quick Facts
- Born:
- Feb. 9 [Feb. 21, New Style], 1876, Slov’yansk, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Slov’yansk, Ukr.]
- Founder:
- Jack of Diamonds
- Movement / Style:
- Socialist Realism
Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky (born Feb. 9 [Feb. 21, New Style], 1876, Slov’yansk, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Slov’yansk, Ukr.]—died Feb. 2, 1956, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a Russian painter and graphic artist who was representative of the Moscow School. Although he was much influenced by the work of Paul Cézanne in the early 20th century, he turned away from this style in the 1930s and embraced Socialist Realism, becoming a classic exemplar of Soviet painting and forfeiting any further claim to innovation in his art. Konchalovsky received an art education in a drawing school in Kharkov, Ukr., at the Stroganov Central ...(100 of 376 words)