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.

Thus far, we have seen examples of contemporary Soviet painting and sculpture ... His vehicle is realist painting combined with words from road signs or slogans. An image of man and woman in ...

Since the collapse of the USSR almost 30 years ago, attitudes toward Socialist Realism - the predominant artistic style of the Soviet period - has kept changing among art historians. But for the ...

The most important task carried out by the new art form, so-called socialist realism, beginning in the 1930s, was the falsification of real relations in Soviet society and the creation of the ...

Or did it? Alexey Ananiev, a 49-year-old, self-made Russian banking billionaire who owns around 6,000 works of Soviet realist art, has made it his mission to rehabilitate the Soviet Union as a ...

There would be no individualism in Soviet art. The process of eliminating formalist, bohemian-bourgeois, individualist artists from Soviet life was slow, and socialist realism only solidified as ...

Their partnership, which used art to challenge — even ridicule — the fundamental tenets of Socialist Realism, began in the Soviet Union in 1972 and continued after they immigrated to the ...

A series from 1999 making fun of the tropes of patriotic American art the way they had with “Nostalgic Socialist Realism” doesn’t really land. Meanwhile, once the end of the Soviet Union ...

Socialist Realism was the official artistic ideology proclaimed in the 1930s in the Soviet Union. It rejected experimentations with non-objective painting and criticized intellectual art that was ...