The Soviet Dis-Union: Socialist Realist and Nonconformist Art is on display at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis thru August 19th. Gallery. Fullscreen Slideshow Previous Slide.

Boguslaw Szwacz, an 88-year-old Polish painter, didn’t know what to expect when he attended a recent opening of Socialist Realist art, including his own work, at a sleek modern art gallery in ...

The year 2014 could be considered the year of socialist realism. Early in the year, Sotheby's auction house held a non-commercial exhibition in London called Soviet Art.Soviet Sport.

The foundations of Russian socialist realism were provided by Nicholai G. Chernyshevsky (1828 - 1889), translator and critical commentator of John Stuart Mills’ Principles of Political Economy. An ...

Socialist Realism isn’t just pictures of happy workers and brave soldiers. 1 of 9 Sea Rescue in the Dark This 1997 painting has been compared to " The Raft of the Medusa ," a French painting ...

Joseph Stalin was no great lover of the arts, unlike other Communist leaders, but he recognised their power to stir his people's souls in the pursu ...

Blending socialist realism with pop art, Hung Liu made paintings that interrogate the myths of immigration and Mao’s Cultural Revolution. February 26, 2025. 4 min.