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.

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

With an active distaste and resentment of paintings that merely imitated reality ... individualist artists from Soviet life was slow, and socialist realism only solidified as authoritarian dogma upon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Socialist Realism was the official artistic ideology ... The most obvious expression of this concept could be found in paintings of Soviet leaders meeting soldiers or workers in the atmosphere ...