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A 5 page research paper that offers an overview of the career and influence of Tahir Salahov, who co-founded the Severe Style of Socialist Realism. Born in Azerbaijan in 1928, Salahov's art reflects the grim reality of Soviet life rather than the idealization mandated by Stalin. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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the Surikov Moscow Art Institute, 1951-1957.2 His painting The Shift is Over (1957, oil on canvas), which was exhibited at the Moscow All-Union Art Exhibition, garnered both critical and public
acclaim.3 Salahov quickly became a leading proponent of the Severe Style, which was a prominent trend in Soviet art during the 1960s.4 Salahov is considered to be one of the
co-founders of this art movement.5 The Severe Style arose as a trend within Socialist Realism that has its roots in the confluence of the liberalism brought about by Khrushchev and,
from around 1957 onward, a growing sense of utopianism.6 The Severe Style typically portrays working people as its subjects, who are usually male and pictured as enduring harsh and difficult
circumstances.7 The subjects in these works inevitably display both courage and stoicism, which makes them similar to works of socialist realism; however, the characteristic that separates them and makes
them distinct is that artists in the Severe Style also indicate their subjects suffering, that is, their struggles, both mental and physical, to meet their objectives.8 This version of Socialist
Realism dared to be more truthful in its portrayal of the grim realities that were the common denominator of workers lives.9 This aspect of the Severe Style is evident in
Salahovs Repair Workers (1960, Baku Museum of the Visual Arts).10 This orientation is also clear in Oil Rocks in the Caspian, which Salahov painted during the summer of
1956, which was a time in which Salahov was extremely disturbed by the death of his father at the hands of the Stalinist regime and also by personal rejection in
terms of his art career thus far.11 By spending his summer at "Oil Rocks out in the Caspian," Salahov was able to renew his spirit and reconnect with a sense
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