Golopolosov Boris Aleksandrovich

Boris Golopolosov is an outstanding artist, one of the political artists in Soviet history. Born in the family of an engineer. In 1919-1925, he studied at the Higher Art Workshops named by AV Shevchenko. In 1926, he joined the Painters’ Workshop and became a member of the Expressionistic Realists Board (until 1930), as they define themselves. He participated in three exhibitions of the workshop, as well as traveling exhibitions arranged by the People's Commissariat (1929, 1930 and 1931). He went on business trips in the areas of industrialization (the Dnieper construction sites), agricultural construction sites, fishing crafts, created the expressive landscapes and scenes of work, full of hidden and open conflicts. On March 31, 1932, he was admitted by candidates for the Artists Revolutionists Association, and immediately after that was admitted the Union of Artists.

In his works of the late 1920s - early 1939's, the impressions of severe political struggle were reflected. Unable to withstand the ideological and aesthetic censorship, after 1934 and until 1977, he did not participate in exhibitions. At this time, he created unique in Soviet art social and political protest paintings ("Man beats his head against the wall", 1937). In 1938, he was expelled from the ranks of Moscow Union of Artists and readmitted to the Union of Artists only in 1978.