{
  "id": 3521243,
  "title": "Painting conservator: Soviet‑era artists had to paint with whatever materials they could get",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/painting-conservator-soviet-era-artists-had-to-paint-with-whatever",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-26T13:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ERR News Estonia",
    "slug": "err-news-estonia",
    "url": "https://news.err.ee/1610119690/painting-conservator-soviet-era-artists-had-to-paint-with-whatever-materials-they-could-get"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Polina Richter, a painting conservator at Kumu art museum who is researching Soviet‑era oil‑painting materials for her master's thesis, says that the scarcity of supplies in that period forced artists to invent creative solutions.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}