European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1945 int-4nd- iwo priced in the West Loti no  Iki Vimy in the Stavit l Union ii Rippl mint in  run Fril Vii s. Soviet Lendur Mili Hiril s. A curb Silhi v s new Rii Intini has Fin Jilly i if Here the nation s Fine tue.  r s  i  in most Niv of works Liy the  Marr chit ill who left the soviet Kunlun in . A in 19jj,  my h Nie lion .11 Home and abroad for its display of several paintings i Hurt had been storm Rel la h twi Al who is being posthumously i my med. A series of lower profile exhibits is bringing Oiher unknown works  to the Public  u years after Sci Ili realism heroic factory workers anal lowering Industrial triumphs were decreed the Basic fare of soviet Fine arts. Over the past six months major shows in Moscow Rind Leningrad have Lis player the storeroom treasures of the nation s two major a i Harries Moscow s Tretyakov and Leningrad s russian museum. They have been Well received. In the capital there have been three exhibits devoted to artists of the 2cs and their students and a Small show in a former Church near the Kremlin t re nuts gems from several  a one of Moscow s most pre 1i�ious exhibition Halls n larger show Entillie d Art and revolution it mourn such previously scorned works As Kazlmir Mulevich s Black Square and a View of red s  by vastly . Also on display Are iwo Large  hangings done by Chagall for a jewish theater and never before shown in Public. Many works have not been seen in Public since soviet embrace Chagall at last  1364. The 2tls ind were executed by artists when have been ignored for 50 Long that their names Are virtually unknown to Young Soviel Art experts today. Dmitri Sara Yanov a professor at Moscow stale University and an expert on russian Art of the 205, Al tributes the reappearance of he1 Avant Garde to Gorbachev s  or  finally input Hong the Tine Iris we were really lagging   . In literature it happened Lonija before Ici theater ii happened Long before in film i happened Long  he was referring to Itie new books plays and movie Hal have appeared in soviet journals healers and cinemas Over the pail iwo years. Although the fresh wind blowing through of her Fields has now rippled into the Fine arts Sara Yanov and others maintain Hal conservatives Mill Block new developments in a country were authorities suppressed abstract Art in the Early 30s. Good Arll just Haven l had  sir ily inn says. Only a handful of specialists such a himself devoted i hair lives to prefer Van the works of the 20s. Three generations have grown up without them and Public taste is unprepared for such works new he says. In ,1 dec. 2 article in the cultural weekly  a Lii Sarabyn nov criticised the Academy of Fine arts for what he said was thu spoiling of soviet sculpture painting and graphics. The Academy founded in 1 Hung in just two Days following a dispute Riboul whether the exhibit should Lake place. As a Gesull in  barely publicised in Misc us and  cd fewer viewers than n show of 19lh Century american and at he Sari  Elery. Yuri Korolev director of the Tretyak Lenv Calli by c a curled Gorbachev s wife Raisa around the exhibit in dec Ember asking her to support More shows in future. The need for such High level backing indicates there h still powerful resistance to an abstract style Long  in the soviet Union. The oblivion to which 1920s Art was banished is illustrated in a Story told by an Art historian who a ked not to be named. She says a member of the Academy of Fine arts on a Lour of try Yakut Stu Renior off limits to the Public once was struck by an abstract work he saw. Me asked who painted it. The academician was in i Uil she says to learn that i he work was his own Jln cd in lir 1 �20s in a style he had Long disowned. Cd till pit Ltd of gift Caturi tuition in 1938. 4 i trim naft Toni tit Tuff a 1