The exhibition embraces a period of Soviet Estonian art that lasted approximately for one generation – from the end of the Second World War to the early 1960s. This period may also be considered a "golden age" of the images of Soviet women in Estonian art. The artworks produced during this period show some differences in style: the earlier works exemplify different stages in the implementation of socialist realism, whereas the later works signify the gradual abandonment of its rigid formula and the development of more modernist styles of realism.

Photo: Stanislav Stepaško