It’s not so odd to make a comparison between Donald Trump and Joseph Stalin when it comes to the cultural realm.

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 ...

His social realism style was well suited to the difficult subjects, including racism and other forms of oppression, he took on in his art.

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 ...

This technique, more conspicuous in Liu’s paintings than her illustration-derived work, was termed “weeping realism” by Liu and her spouse, art critic Jeff Kelley. One of the largest pieces ...

from the sphere of painting in Socialist realism as ‘immoral.’ Glazunov cannot but be praised for the boldness with which he broke this stupid taboo and brought back to art an earthy delight ...

The art of the 1930s occupies a unique place in ... cultural milieu into a blur of burly bodies and simple scenes of social realism. “Art for the Millions,” a new exhibition at the ...

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 ...

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 ...