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Society of Easel Painters [Rus. Obshchestvo khudozhnikov-stankovistov; OST].
Russian exhibiting society formed in 1924, active until 1930. It included some of the most talented artists of the post-revolutionary generation and was influential in the 1920s. David Shterenberg, its chairman and guiding spirit, defined its aims as opposing abstraction and the genre pictures associated with the Wanderers, rejecting ‘pseudo-Cézannism’ and ‘sketchiness’, while advocating technical mastery, ‘revolutionary contemporaneity’ and ‘unambiguous subject-matter’. Like the Constructivists, the members of the Society of Easel Painters were keenly aware of the impact of technical and industrial progress on the arts, but they were committed to a Revolutionary Socialism that strongly rejected non-representational painting; in practice, however, abstract art was tolerated. The work of the Society was clearly influenced by Dada, German Expressionism and early Surrealism: the working men and women of the proletarian world who lived in modern housing blocks were austerely presented with spiky angularity in clear colours.
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