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Victor Kochetov

Victor Kochetov

Kharkiv artists used hand coloring in a variety of ways, from the subtle highlighting of a certain detail to making a photo look like a coloring book page. The latter was characteristic of Kochetov’s brutal and uncompromising approach. He turned his originally realistic black-and-white scenes into a work of kitsch as if taking to its extreme the social realism principle of showing the brighter side of reality in an effort to change it by means of art.
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