EXPRESSIONIST PALETTE IN FINE ARTS ON THE THEME OF WORLD WAR II AND THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
Journal: Izvestiya of the Samara Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences Social Humanitarian Medicobiological Sciences
Year: 2025

This study demonstrates how the German Expressionist tradition, alongside Socialist Realism, was largely reflected in the work of Russian front-line artists: the pain of war often cannot be expressed in a clear, transparent, or carefully maintained realistic manner. The very phenomenon of pain does not presuppose the ordinary, mundane flow of life and its reproduction in the spirit of "imitation of nature." Pain—both physical and emotional—is always a breakdown, a person's escape from everyday r