Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov

Art Brokerage: Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov Russian Artist: b. 1906-1988. Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov was a prominent Soviet painter. A preeminent practitioner of "socialist realism", Reshetnikov was recognized by the government for his work and was a member for three and a half decades of the Soviet Academy of Arts. Beginning in the late 1940s, Reshetnikov emerged as one of the Soviet Union's best known socialist realists. He specialized in two types of paintings: depictions of Soviet leadership (his several drawings of Stalin were favored by the dictator) and of ordinary lives. Children were particularly common in his paintings. Throughout his life, Reshetnikov opposed formalism in art, exposing it wherever he found it. His views were popular with the authorities and he became an appointed member of the Academy of Arts in 1953 and its vice-president in 1974. Reshetnikov received many prestigious governmental awards for his contributions to Soviet culture, including the Stalin Prize. Reshetnikov taught art in two Moscow colleges from 1953 until 1962. In 1963 he authored a book (Secrets of Abstractionism, in which he expounded his negative views of "bourgeois" artistic movements. Reshetnikov died in Moscow in 1988. Listings wanted.