For a decade or so on either side of World War II, Shahn’s achievements made him an art star, earning him a major show at the ...

A new show of North Korean Socialist Realism paintings at American University ... “I was fascinated by the art,” says artist and curator BG Muhn. “I thought, wow, this is something I never ...

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 ...

He started drawing at age 15, attending art school in East Germany, where his training was steeped in Socialist Realism, a representative art movement that promoted the ideology of the Communist ...

Currently on view at the Columbia Museum of Art is the work of yet another artist, Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), who never lost touch with the social realist impulse that informs her artistic ...

The year 2014 marked the return of socialist realism in the art world. That winter, Sotheby’s auction house in London held a noncommercial exhibition titled Soviet Art. Soviet Sport., ...