Socialist Realism, the officially enforced style of art under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, is undergoing a revival in Russia — and the Russian Orthodox Church is playing a key supporting role.

The process of eliminating formalist, bohemian-bourgeois, individualist artists from Soviet life was slow, and socialist realism only solidified as authoritarian dogma upon the ascendancy of Joseph ...

More of the big lie that “socialist realism” emerged from Soviet revolutionary art Dream factory communism: the visual culture of the Stalin era—an exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt ...

When we think of Soviet art many of us conjure up heroic images of communist leaders and selfless peasant workers. These types of paintings are part of the Socialist realism movement started by ...

But Socialist Realism was not always about huge posters and statues of Lenin and Stalin and other members of the pecking order who lined up on the balcony in the Kremlin during the victory parade ...

Russia's new capitalists are paying top ruble for paintings of Socialist Realism -- glorified renderings of happy, toiling Soviet peasants. Red art turning to green - Los Angeles Times ...

Art: Realism in the Raw. 2 ... from the sphere of painting in Socialist realism as ‘immoral ... the portrayal and glorification of Stalin,” and hailing the fact that “the beauty of ...

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.

That’s an allusion to the classical myth of the origin of art from Pliny, and the large canvas is called The Origins of Socialist Realism (1982-83). Paintings from Komar & Melamid’s ...

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 ...