Oscar Rabin

In the late 1950s together with E. and L. Kropivnitsky became the founder of the unofficial art group "Lianozovo"

Rabin's figurative painting - landscapes and still lifes - is distinguished by the emphasized ordinariness of things that surround a person in everyday life: the image of rickety houses in the suburbs, a railway station near Moscow, a table with food in a rural house, etc. They form Rabin's special symbolic system, which creates in his series a hopeless atmosphere of Soviet life.

Rabin imitates on the canvas real objects of mass culture - banknotes, vodka labels, scraps of newspapers, creating the illusion of their complete authenticity. After moving to France, Rabin's work largely lost its social orientation.