Alla Pologova is a pre-eminent Russian sculptor of the later 20th and 21st centuries.Her artistic career took a dramatic turn in 1962 when Khruschev visited an art exhibition and was enraged by her "Maternity", which he considered decadent. Alla was blacklisted as an artist till Kruschev's ouster in 1964, after which she gradually began exhibiting and selling her art. She restored the tradition of painted sculpture.She was among the first sculptors of the period to move away from the stale technology that started with a clay model and proceeded to the end result trough mechanical casting and copying. Virtually every work of hers since 1970 was done in the final material - bronze, stone, wood or ceramic by hand.