Worker and Collective Farm Woman

The Worker and Collective Farm Woman was created by Vera Mukhina in 1936 in Moscow. It is a gigantic stainless group of a worker and a collective farmer for the Soviet Economic Achievement Exhibition of 1936. It was so impressive that it became for the Soviet consciousness almost the Russian equivalent of the Statue of Liberty.
What really impresses me in this work is the male and female being together fighting for the same goal. The same can be seen in Russian Constructivist who included both men and women in their work. Constructivism in Russia was mostly influenced by Italian Futurism but they did not possess the same value or violent hostile to the idea of woman creativity. For several reasons, women played a very important role in the Russian avant - garde of the revolutionary years. First of all, the Revolution made a deep impact on Russian society. The other reason for that was the Constructivism which pushed the limits of visual arts, drew artistic practice into areas, such as textile design, which were mostly practiced by women.
In the year 1947, the sculpture became the symbol of the Russian "Mosfilm" Studio. It is maybe the oldest and biggest film studio in Europe and Russia. Commonly considered greatest film directors of Soviet like Eisenstein and Tarkovky and japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosowa have all produced films in that studio.

On the official website of the studio, it is indicated that the majority of motion pictures on the market are created by the studios on Mosfilm premises, which are led by famous Russian cinematographers Vadim Abdrashytov, Valentin Chernykh, Georgy Danelia, Svetlana Druzhinina, Andrey Eshpai, Sergei Govorukhin, Sergei Kolosov, Vladimir Menshov, Vladimir Naumov, Gleb Panfilov, Sergei Soloviov, Alla Surikova etc.
Still today, Mosfilm continue to expand as a film studio and it accommodates state of art technologies, non stop film productions, experienced creative professionals working in all over aspects of film making from pre - production to post - production and a rare collection such as weaponry props since the time of eigtheen century to now, tanks, costumes and landscapes.
The famous symbol of Worker and Collective Farm Woman was appeared for the first time in 1947, in the film "Spring" by Grigoriy Alexandrov.
The website of the Mosfilm can be visited in this link:
http://eng.mosfilm.ru/