Since the collapse of the USSR almost 30 years ago, attitudes toward Socialist Realism - the predominant artistic style of the Soviet period - has kept changing among art historians.

Alexander Deyneka’s style would later tend toward Soviet official art, known as socialist realism. Here, however, on the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, he applies the “ornamental ...

Their partnership, which used art to challenge — even ridicule — the fundamental tenets of Socialist Realism, began in the Soviet Union in 1972 and continued after they immigrated to the ...

This way, the future. IN THE 1930s there was a picture-generating machine producing a standardised kind of art called Soviet Realism. The machine's job was to tell the masses about the future.

During the late 1930s the party went through a fraught period of self-purification and supported and encouraged optimistic socialist realism as the singular form of art in the Soviet Union, violently ...

The exhibition of Erik Bulatov paintings, at the Renaissance Society, 5811 S. Ellis Ave., is an important step in developing an understanding of the niagra of contemporary art headed toward our sho… ...

During the Brezhnev era the Soviet Union sanctioned only one artistic style: Socialist Realism. Paintings, sculptures and murals purveyed idealized figures heroically enduring hardships and ...

The term "Soviet Realism" conjures up images of workers and farmers nobly engaged in their labors—inflated to mythical status—and depicted in a kind of debased academic style. Produced at a ...

Sotheby's London is showing 35 of the paintings owned by Mr. Ananiev in a non-selling show.

Portraits of Kanye West, 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg and others represent a change for an architect of Soviet Realist Pop Art. Painter eyes hip-hop's titans - Los Angeles Times ...