The incredible story of how America's CIA used the art of Abstract Expressionism as a weapon during its Cold War fight ...

When Zainul Abedin left Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1947, as India and Pakistan negotiated a partition-ridden freedom from the ...

The Village Voice review of painter Dianna Settles exhibition, “Enemy of the Century,” notes its blend of politics and human-scale utopias.

Show of monochromatic works featuring Keith Bennett’s “ORB COMPULSIVE DISORDER” and Mike Landers in the Upper Gallery with ...

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

‘Remember Soviet Socialist Realism?,’ Peterson added ... works as the site of a mythical battle between the forces of art and ideology: if the best paintings in his collection manage to overcome the ...

The paintings depicted an era of socialist realism in Ukraine ... into their work to capture their true perspectives on the Soviet regime, according to the exhibit description.

Two paintings, for example ... Jewish liturgical texts, even Soviet Socialist Realism, whose greatest artists she is determined to rescue from the trash heap of Western art history.

Leonid Brezhnev’s stagnant political era (1964–1982) in the Soviet Union continued to be sanctioned by only one artistic style — Socialist Realism. Paintings and sculptures emphasized idealized ...

The Kherson Art Museum has identified 100 paintings that were allegedly ... who made work in the Socialist Realism tradition of the Soviet Union that idealized the working class.

ASTANA – Abilkhan Kasteev, a towering artist of his generation and the master of social realism who ... first exhibited his paintings publicly in 1942. Kasteev’s oeuvre Kasteev’s works were the ...