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.

The art of the Soviet era operated, essentially, on two levels: The surface was "Socialist Realism," statuary and ... sculptures, paintings, and lithographs that captures the genuine attitudes ...

Archaeologist and frustrated painter Igor Savitsky rescued more than 40,000 Soviet artworks (mainly paintings) from obscurity—tucked away in family closets and under beds, used as patching for ...

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.