Socialist realism

Malaev Fedor "flying airplanes". 1950

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Isaak Brodsky (Russian 1884–1939) [Realism, Socialist Realism] The May Day demonstration on the prospect 25 October 1934.

FROM RUSSIA: Vladimir Serov created fascinating lyrical portraits of Soviet women: workers, students, and, of course, his spectacularly beautiful wife, Henrietta Serova, an art critic of Jewish and Roma ancestry.

This 1964 Chinese propaganda poster reads "Get out of Africa, American Imperialism". My how times change.

… [W]hat is most important, that which constitutes the very gist, the living soul, of Marxism—is a concrete analysis of a concrete situation — Vladimir Lenin

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"Norman Rockwell's paintings are not so different in their style from Socialist Realism, or even in the kind of people and situations they depict; they've often been used as Americanist propaganda. The difference between what might be called 'bourgeois realism' and Socialist Realism is not the manner, or even always the matter, it's the address of the artist. Consider this [Rockwell] painting (via) of a schoolroom back in the USSR:" --Duncan Mitchel; see also

Introduction - Unknown Socialist Realism: The Leningrad School of Painting 1920-1990s