Surovyy stil'

Severe style is a trend in realistic Soviet painting, characteristic of the turn of the 1950s and 1960s.

The main representatives of the "severe style":

Hero of Socialist Labor, People's Artist of the USSR, Academician Izzat Klychev (1923-2006)

Hero of Socialist Labor, People's Artist of the USSR, Academician Tahir Salakhov (1928-2021)

People's Artist of the USSR, Academician Viktor Ivanov (b. 1924)

People's Artist of the USSR, Academician Andrey Vasnetsov (1924-2009)

People's Artist of the USSR, Academician Geliy Korzhev (1925-2012

People's Artist of the USSR, Academician Pyotr Ossovsky (1925-2015)

People's Artist of the RSFSR, Academician Obrosov, Igor Pavlovich (1930-2010)

People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Academician Nikolai Andronov (1929-1998)

People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Academician Nikonov, Pavel Fedorovich (b. 1930)

Victor Popkov (1932-1974)

Smolin brothers

Mikhail Savitsky

Babikov, Stanislav Gennadievich (1934-1977), member of the Seven group (creative association)