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Oscar Yakovlevich Rabin

Oscar Yakovlevich Rabin (1928 - 2018) was active/lived in Russian Federation, France.  Oscar Rabin is known for Expressionist, political themed landscape and still-life paintings.

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Oskar Rabin, Defiant Artist During Soviet Era, Dies at 90, Obituray, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, November 11 2018

Mr. Rabin painted still lifes and landscapes, often imbuing them with wry critiques of Soviet life, but his fame rested as much on his defiance as on his artistic ability.

In 1974 he was among the organizers of an outdoor exhibition in Moscow by so-called nonconforming artists — those who were denied exhibitions in recognized galleries and museums because they refused to limit themselves to the officially sanctioned style of the day, Socialist realism, which emphasized heroic scenes and sculptures and left no room for impressionism or abstraction or unpleasant subjects. The artists met an unforgiving resistance.

“When they gathered in an open lot on September 15,” Hedrick Smith, who was then a reporter in Moscow for The New York Times, wrote in his 1976 book “The Russians,” “they were brutally dispersed by plainclothes police d   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9318 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Oscar Yakovlevich Rabin

   Oscar Yakovlevich Rabin  Born:  1928 - Moscow, Russia
Died:   2018 - Florence, Italy
Known for:  Expressionist, political themed landscape and still-life paintings
Name variants:  Oskar Rabin, Oscar Iakovlevitch Rabine

Oskar Rabin, Defiant Artist During Soviet Era, Dies at 90, Obituray, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, November 11 2018

Mr. Rabin painted still lifes and landscapes, often imbuing them with wry critiques of Soviet life, but his fame rested as much on his defiance as on his artistic ability.

In 1974 he was among the organizers of an outdoor exhibition in Moscow by so-called nonconforming artists — those who were denied exhibitions in recognized galleries and museums because they refused to limit themselves to the officially sanctioned style of the day, Socialist realism, which emphasized heroic scenes and sculptures and left no room for impressionism or abstraction or unpleasant subjects. The artists met an unforgi  ...  Displaying 750 of 9318 characters.

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