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 ...

In fact, in the words of Aleksandr Gerasimov, it refers to any painting or sculpture that is realistic in form and socialist in content. The term Russian Art, introduced during the late 1920s and ...

The art form that became the singular artistic expression of communism took its roots in the mid-nineteenth century, aiming to establish art as a manual for (socialist revolutionary) life. Tetiana ...

The international conference Socialist Internationalism and the Global Contemporary explores a possible alternative beginning of Global Art History and World Art Studies: methodologies that set a ...

This North Korean Art Is More Than Propaganda. Socialist Realism isn’t just pictures of happy workers and brave soldiers. By Gabe Bullard. July 20, 2016 ...

Tom Keating was one of the greatest art forgers of the 20th century, faking artists ranging from Rembrandt to Renoir... but his motivations were not what they appeared to be. An excerpt from ...

The huge poster in Dresden’s Unity Square last week was bright red with a blaring message: WE WELCOME THE FIRST SOCIALIST ART EXHIBIT. Inside an immense gallery, East Germany’s Communists had ...

Socialist Art From China, Remade in Michigan. The artist Wang Qingsong has re-staged a 1959 artwork called “The Bloody Clothes” in Highland Park, a small city within Detroit.

One evening, in the late 1970s at the Arts Council in Karachi, this reviewer was privileged to see an exhibition of graphic art from Poland. To say that he was impressed would be a gross ...