Decades passed after its fall before art critics knew how to speak about socialist realist cinema – finding within it unique themes, intuitive choices and artful tropes. The genre came late to Poland.

The first occurred around 1948, when the young, freshly graduated artist attempted to reimagine realism to be relevant after the catastrophic war. The second came in about 1956, when he tried to do ...

Martino Abellana was a Filipino artist known for his oil, pastels, and charcoal works that often depicted social-realist perspectives. He was associated with Sugbuanon Realism and Contemporary Bisaya ...

This, said Socialist Realism, meant that modernist art had cut itself off from human emotions, and devoted itself selfishly to "art for art's sake" instead. Nor was this just a Stalinist myth ...