Yuri Ivanovich Pimenov

(1903-1977)

He was called the master of Soviet impressionism; Pimenov himself considered himself a “realistic impressionist” and did not intend to abandon his creative credo and artistic decisions even at a time when he was reprimanded and harassed by the authorities. Remaining deeply Soviet artist, Pimenov "took" party ideologues "from art" with the themes of his paintings devoted to the lives of contemporaries, reserving the right to perform them in the technique that was inherent to him: ligh