Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877) was a deeply controversial figure. Slurred as a ‘socialist painter’ he said, “I accept that title with pleasure. I am not only a socialist but a Democrat and a Republican ...

Going Home on the Morning Train — Diane Rankhorn and the Russian Socialist Realist Painters is a new literary nonfiction book by Charlton Walters Hillis of Chickamauga, Ga. The informal ...

Both recognized the need for a new art for a new time, but the former placed artists in service to the state and prioritized the use of art as political propaganda, while the latter cherished the ...

The exhibition 24 Arguments: Early Encounters in Romanian Neo-Avant-Garde 1969-1971 continues at the National Museum of Art of Romania (49-53 Calea Victoriei, Bucharest, Romania) through February 2.

Tetiana Zhmurko, Head of Modern Art at NAMU, explains how “As the capital of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (UkrSS) from 1921 to 1934, Kharkiv was quickly transformed into a refined ...

London hasn’t been alone in its socialist realist mania, however. In recent history, crowds have filled museums in New York, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Rome to see art from the USSR made from the ...

Drawn in charcoal in a socialist realist style, the mural, more than 12 feet long, showed a group of men walking forward and carrying their fallen friends in their arms.

There is space for digital and A.I.-generated art, each requiring its own skill set. But human-produced realist art will never disappear. In fact, it may be more essential than ever.

Updated at 7 a.m. ET on June 20, 2025 Zohran Mamdani is a left-wing daydream of a New York City mayoral candidate. He’s young—33—and proudly socialist. His campaign ads call to mind a mashup ...