Alexei Mikhailovich Gritsai - Artist Info

About Alexei Mikhailovich Gritsai

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Aleksey Mikhailovich Gritsay
  • Biography

    Soviet landscape painter Aleksei Gritsai (1914 – 1998) – teacher, professor, Corresponding Member (1957), Academician of the USSR Academy of Arts (1964). People’s Artist of the USSR (1974), winner of the USSR State Prize (1978) and two Stalin Prizes third degree (1951, 1952).

    He did a lot for the revival of the Russian landscape in the post-war Soviet art. In the revolutionary and post-revolutionary Russian avant-garde art, and then in the Soviet art of 1930-1950-ies landscape was not popular. However, after the war, returning from the war artists began to look at the world through different eyes.

    Gritsai was one of these artists, who preferred the pure landscape in the art study. In addition, Gritsai was an outstanding teac...

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