Easel painting from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic for the 1970s-80s was developed through courageous innovations with a touch of popular traditions. At the same time, specific to the given stage was the appeal of visual artists from the former USSR as the representatives of different national schools to the universal traditions. The period of time was called as “a stagnation” until the beginning of “restructuring”, when the state system of the former USSR, with its harsh party censorship, didn’t allow the essential changes in any field of the arts. Strict control was applied, above all, to “the innovative artists”. The obvious interest manifisted by artists for the forbidden reasons was specific one to the visual arts. The emphasis o the renewal of artistic means and the use of new materials, but without the creation of fresh trends and purely technical genres, that’s impossible to achieve it. In the 1970s, artists were required to increase the number of exhibitions and were only required to produce „serious, finished” works. The visual artists for the 1970s-80s who resorted to experimentation in their creations were Mihai Grecu, Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu, Ada Zevin, Elena Bontea, Mihai Ţăruş et al.