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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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., ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The works in “William Gropper: Artist of the People,” a sharply political ... and his concerns about social justice in the principal era covered by this show, from 1932 to 1957.