Decades passed after its fall before art critics knew how to speak about socialist realist cinema – finding within it unique themes, intuitive choices and artful tropes. The genre came late to Poland.

Chen Yifei was a Chinese painter known for his realistic portraits, landscapes, and interiors. Born on April 12, 1946 in Ningbo, China, he studied at the Shanghai College of Art, where he learned to ...

D.C. artist Mark Kelner’s meticulous text paintings of roadside signs are a window into the country’s socioeconomic life.

The building, designed by Zygmunt Majerski and Julian Duchowicz, was equipped with details typical of socialist realism, but its massive, simple form is far from being pompous, just like Warsaw’s ...

Her work notably draws from both the imagery of ancient Chinese art, as well as the Chinese Socialist Realist style of painting in which she was originally trained. She received extensive honors and ...

In the Eye of the Storm conveys how Ukraine came to be a thriving center of avant-garde art in the early decades of the 20th century.

How descendants of an underground, non-conformist photography movement—founded in Kharkiv in the 1970s—continue to capture ...

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The dynamic art scene in the Baltic region is humming with activity this fall season. Here is what to look out for.

and with its explicit “proletarian” theme already indicates the pressures to adapt to Socialist Realism. Alexander Bogomazov, Sharpening the Saws, 1927, National Art Museum of Ukraine [Photo ...

This, said Socialist Realism, meant that modernist art had cut itself off from human emotions, and devoted itself selfishly to "art for art's sake" instead. Nor was this just a Stalinist myth ...

The legacy and inspiration of Soviet director Sergei Parajanov is at the center of I Will Revenge This World With Love – S.