The sixth exhibition of AKhRR, the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, opened in Moscow at the State Historical Museum under the title "Revolution, the Everyday Life and Work." The documented listing gives the scale as 499 paintings and sculptures by 134 authors, including Mikhail Avilov, Abram Arkhipov, Mikhail Bobyshov, Alexander Vakhrameev, Nikolai Dormidontov, Yuly Klever, Piotr Kotov, Vasily Svarog, and Rudolf Frentz. AKhRR had been formed in the early Soviet period and became one of the most influential organizations shaping art acceptable to the new state. Its exhibitions promoted legible, socially oriented imagery of revolutionary life, labor, and Soviet subjects, helping build the framework from which Socialist Realism would later be codified.
AKhRR's exhibition culture helped move Soviet art toward state-backed narrative realism.
