Soviet art was intended to serve the ideological ideals of communism, and many artists obliged. We selected 10 works that were used to instruct people in how to live properly and love the Motherland.

Socialist Realism was the official artistic ideology proclaimed in the 1930s in the Soviet Union. It rejected ...

Since the collapse of the USSR almost 30 years ago, attitudes toward Socialist Realism ... they were. Paintings were widely replicated in illustrated fine art books, which in the Soviet Union ...

Paintings, sculptures ... Trotsky explained in 1938: “The style of present-day official Soviet painting is called ‘socialist realism.’... [T]he ‘socialist’ character apparently consists ...

In often fantastical paintings, drawings and immersive installations ... a wonderful flatness that managed to poke fun at the Soviet Realism he had so successfully mastered.

which featured 40 socialist realist paintings with a particular focus ... should be already familiar to casual observers of Soviet socialist realism, they are animated by telling accounts that ...

Three of those paintings are truly singular visions of ... through a vision forged in the restrictive crucible of Soviet Realism and developed in the heady surrealism of American popular culture.

The photograph evokes Rodchenko’s earlier investigations in his paintings. “Radical” aesthetic approaches to photography steadily came into conflict with the needs and outlook of the Soviet ...

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