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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/820/826-26.jpg
Title	Portrait of V.I. Lenin by V. Charangovich (1970) in the Style of Jackson Pollock II.
Creator	Art & Language (British group of artists, founded 1968)
Date	1980
Cultural Context	British European
Style/Period	Conceptual Abstract (fine arts style) Contemporary
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Pastiches Conceptual art Abstraction Figurative art Figures (representations) Portraits Profiles (figures) Three-quarter views Oblique views Heads (representations) Heads (animal or human components) Faces (animal or human components) Men (male humans) Politicians Revolutionaries Activists Leaders (people)
Subject	Paintings Abstract works Abstract paintings Portrait paintings Portraits Heads (Anatomy) Faces Men Politicians Government officials People associated with politics & government Activists Revolutionaries Beards
Description	"Look closely at the image […]. It appears to be an icon of postwar experimental art - an early 1950s abstraction by the American painter Jackson Pollock. However, read the caption and it is revealed to be a pastiche by Art & Language, a group of post-1960s Conceptual artists. In many ways it encapsulates the politics underpinning the subject of this chapter, the rise of Modernism after the Second World War. […] Give the image a couple of seconds, and something reveals itself among the abstract brushstrokes: Lenin's leftward-inclined profile, with familiar pointed beard. This peculiar marriage of styles is clearly bound up with two divergent artistic principles; realism and abstraction. In the immediate postwar years these were the dominant aesthetic orientations linked to the cultural climates of the world's most powerful political rivals. Communist Russia favored legible Socialist Realism for a collective audience, whilst capitalist America and Western Europe in general attached considerable cultural kudos to the notion of a difficult or 'avant-garde' art. Like Art & Language's hidden image of Lenin, the art of postwar Russia and Eastern Europe is 'invisible' in the pages that follow. But the aesthetic and ideological alternatives it represented continued to be strangely active, usually at a submerged level. The direction of American and European art in the early Cold War years was haunted by discarded options." (Excerpt, p.5)
People Pictured	Lenin, Vladimir Il’ich, 1870-1924
Material	Enamel and cellulose paint on canvas Enamel paint Paint Canvas
Measurements	293 x 210 cm
Technique	Painting (image-making)
Work Type	Paintings Abstract paintings Abstract works Conceptual art
Repository	Lisson Gallery (London, England, United Kingdom)
Source	Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.6, fig.1)
Rights	Photo: Gareth Winters. Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of the Lisson Gallery, London.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 826-26.jpg
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