Second Russian avant-garde

[5] The period from the late 50s to the early 60s in the Soviet Union was marked by an expansion of innovation and creation in all spheres of Russian cultural life.

Belyutin developed a special methodology based on different teaching systems, including the method created by Russian painter Pavel Petrovich Chistyakov which focused on analyzing and taking into account the fine details of one's subject[4] as well as the Russian avant-garde artists of the 1920s and their movements of Constructivism and Suprematism.

The event is historically called the Manege Affair, and marked a return in state control over the development of Soviet cultural production.

The consequences of this affair by Khrushchev had widespread ramifications within \the Union, and the previous condemnation of the movements of Formalism and Abstractionism were intensified.

Yet, ten years prior during the 1950s and 60s it was slightly more clear as the Khrushchev That had opened up the ability to publicly question the Socialist ideology, although within tightly codified boundaries.

Picture of Mikhail Grobman ca. 2013
Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev tour the U.S. National Exhibition in Sokolniki Park, Moscow, July 1959.
Picture of Boris Zhutovsky