Nesterova Natalya

1944

It happened, that Natalya Nesterova has become a living classic of Russian art in Soviet period – that was the power of the impulse created by the artists of 1970s. The romantic 1960s was behind, the «thaw» was forgotten, and the air of lassitude and fatigue grew increasingly stronger in culture. In 1970s members of the Moscow Union of Artists were "official" artists, but they ably and insensibly reflected the atmosphere of absurdity and incompatibillity of the society aspirations and the decrepit political system. 

Vladimir Prokhorov