Labels:bulletin board | clock | concert | earth | mountain | person | poster | rock | sky | umbrella | windowpane OCR: Russian art in the second half of the 20th century begins with the so-called Thaw (late 1950s-early 1960s). In 1954 I.G Erenburg published book entitled "The Thaw where the main character was an artist who followed the traditions of Russian Impressionism. The revival of Impressionism marked the first step towards expanding aesthetic forms and reviewing the very notion of "painting in Soviet art The Impressionistic worldview stood in stark contrast to solemn Soviet painting as focused on spontaneous observation and the expression of life experience mpressionism paintinc
