A sense of theatricity is present in his paintings, probably due to his studies of theater design under Korovin.
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Stalin Prize winner of 1951 in the area of Fine Arts were painter Boris Ioganson, Vasily Sokolov (for painting «Appearance of Lenin on III convention of Komsomol», Tretyakov gallery), sculptor Sergei Merkurov (for monument to Joseph Stalin in Yerevan), Kukryniksy, painter Dmitriy Nalbandyan (for painting «The Great Frendship»), sculptor Vera Mukhina (for sculpture «We demand Peace»).
To work at the Institute he attracts major artists and educators Konstantin Yuon, Pavel Naumov, Boris Ioganson, Alexander Lubimov, Rudolf Frentz, Nikolai Petrov, Vasily Shuhaev, Dmitry Kiplik, Nikolai Punin, Vasily Meshkov, Mikhail Bernshtein, Yefim Cheptsov, Ivan Bilibin, Matvey Manizer, Piotr Buchkin, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Alexander Karev, Leonid Ovsyannikov, Sergei Priselkov, Ivan Stepashkin, Konstantin Rudakov, and others.
Yuri Pimenov, Boris Ioganson and Geli Korzev have also been described as "unappreciated masters of twentieth-century realism".