Instead of overcoming social ... art form, so-called socialist realism, beginning in the 1930s, was the falsification of real relations in Soviet society and the creation of the legend that Stalin ...

Elizaveta Mikulina/Sputnik The notion of “social realism” (which was imposed by Joseph Stalin following Lenin’s death and basically forced artists to create nauseatingly optimistic pictures ...

While in some places social realism ... the face of Stalin blurred to the point that his presence becomes ghastly. But moving into the middle of the 1950s, you can see official art losing ground ...

By 1934 Stalin had taken personal control of Soviet cultural life. After writer Maxim Gorky delivered a speech declaring “Socialist Realism” to be the only morally acceptable art form ...

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 ...

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts found in 2008 that “the colossal scale and Social Realist style of the proposed statue recalls a genre of political sculpture that has recently been pulled down in ...

Savitsky soon discovered a coterie of disfavored artists who did not fit in the officially sanctioned style of socialist realism ... works of Soviet avant-garde art, which has been housed since ...

Socialist Realism was ... persistent in the art of Socialist Realism. Soviet culture was essentially paternalist, relying on strict hierarchy and subordination. Joseph Stalin, the country and ...