In this essay, Olena Solodovnikova looks at the Soviet heritage of murals in today’s Ukraine and how younger artists try to ...

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The paintings, prints and other visual media of Guangdong show its transformative contribution to 20th century Chinese art.

With the first arrivals having settled in last month, the villa with its original furniture and Socialist Realist art will host 22 artists from around 15 different countries this year.

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.

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 ...

UNLIKE most working-class children, when Cliff Rowe left school in 1918 aged 14 he went to the local art school rather than going straight to work. Aged 19 he was earning a living as a commercial ...

Last week, the museum announced that it was to be combined with the Moscow museum’s 20th century art department, which includes both avant-garde and Soviet Socialist Realist art, and the ...

Tetiana Zhmurko, Head of Modern Art at NAMU, explains how “As the capital of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (UkrSS) from 1921 to 1934, Kharkiv was quickly transformed into a refined ...

He started drawing at age 15, attending art school in East Germany, where his training was steeped in Socialist Realism, a representative art movement that promoted the ideology of the Communist ...

Socialist realist art has been laughed at and ridiculed by many in the West as stereotypical, propagandistic and primitive. Such attitudes were, sadly, reinforced by those party bureaucrats in the ...