Viktor Karrus

The painting by Viktor Karrus, composed as a triptych, fulfils the typical Soviet art requirement from the point of view of content, not only to remain at the formalistic level of depiction of nature, but to glorify socialist achievements, high-voltage lines and houses by means of painting, as well as ploughed-up fields. Not a centimetre of land is lying idle here, everything is put to work. In aesthetic terms, however, oil painting represents the chic nature of the 1960s, no longer boring Stalin-era socio-realism. Viktor Karrus was educated at the Pallas school of art, but converted it to socio-realistic joint painting with other artists after World War II. In the 1960s, as can be seen, Viktor Karrus again kept up with the times.