Tashkent
Nukus museum of art
The censors saw it as a parody of the mighty USSR advancing as a raging bull; its eyes symbolic of two gun barrels expressing Stalin’s methods of repression and blindness of state; the rising sun symbolic of the Soviet Union. The painting was also known by its alternate title: Fascism Advances. The inspectors assessed the painting for its anti-Soviet meaning. Lysenko was arrested and sent to a psychiatric asylum in 1935 because – a bull can’t be blue. Savitisky hid this painting during a gallery inspection and replaced it the bexr day.
Khiva
Views of the Steppes
Bukhara
Samarkand
