To the Defense Front, 1946 by Eranuhi AslamazyanYerevan Biennial Art Foundation
It’s the perspective of the painting that involves us in the scene. It’s like being there, together with those people heading to the porch a little further on. Let’s get a move on then!
There we see the figure of a soldier. We’re near a barracks, along a Soviet front in Armenia, in 1946.
The locals are bringing supplies to the soldiers. The wealth of the baskets, the brightness of the colors, their faces: everything seems to convey the joyful event in a way that is, perhaps, even over-the-top.
This portrayal style was a key point of the socialist realism, the most popular movement in the USSR. Art takes on the political role to create a sense of unity and to enhance the collective effort.
The artist doesn’t give up his personal touch, though. Despite the predilection by the soviet standards for the ideal of a homogenous people -without ethnic diversity-, Eranhui Aslamazyan’s paintings diverge for the depiction of the Armenian people in all their distinctive features.
The artist’s love for her motherland is really intense and embodies the focus of her art. On the horizon, we see the Armenian mountains appear, painted with thin glazings of color, as if they were caresses.
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