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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joseph Stalin was no great lover of the arts, unlike other Communist leaders, but he recognised their power to stir his people's souls in the pursu ...

Socialist Un-realism. At the time of the New Yorker article, ... Robert Hughes praised the show in Time for nailing the “correct borsht-and-gravy colors of official Soviet art of 30 years ago.” ...

That winter, Sotheby’s auction house in London held a noncommercial exhibition titled Soviet Art. Soviet Sport., which featured 40 socialist realist paintings with a particular focus on the late ...