I encountered difficulties in collecting factual information on Lyapkalo’s thoughts to write about. The following is a correspondence with Viktor Lyapkalo. I’m grateful that Viktor made time to reply. Before sharing our correspondence, I got Lyapkalo’s consent to share his thoughts on art.
Socialist Realism is a strong realistic school that takes its origins from the old Imperial Academy of Arts where Serov Vrubel Kustodiev Repin studied.
The political background of socialism is another story, but first it is a realistic school that still serves us as an example of gorgeous paintings of strong drawing.
Thanks to socialist realism, we have preserved a strong Russian school in the Academy of Arts, where very talented students who know how to draw and write still study
Artists of socialist realism Gerasimov use layer of layers still serves us as an example of pictorial skill and excellent drawing.
Their political paintings are already a tribute to the times, but they achieve a high artistic level in their execution. While in other countries, in other art schools, teaching underwent changes under the influence of new versions of new trends in art, our school, thanks to socialist realism, training remained at the same level as at the Imperial Academy of Arts, therefore our students can all write well, I have good painting qualities.
I believe you need to narrate what you love and what you like and then it will be sincere. Those works that are made for sale without love are immediately visible. They are fake and without a soul. Of course, my preferences are not for everyone. I look primarily at picturesque points of view when I narrate a painting with women. I really understand Renoir because of how he painted women. Skin is more like an onion flower that has all shades of colors.
Viktor Lyapkalo
Виктор Александрович Ляпкало
May 10, 2024
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