At the same time, the artist’s pictorial statements carry a message that tells a story of the artist’s attitude to life and to the times he happened to have lived in. He distrusted the false rhetoric and pathetic fallacies of “socialist realism” propaganda painting and yet was quite acceptable to the Soviet authorities in charge of art. However, it is a very telling fact that Bernadsky’s art continued to have an appeal long past the collapse of communism and its dogmas. His paintings sell well at art auctions in the west and this only confirms the success of Bernadsky’s long artistic career.