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 document is regarded as the final confirmation of the introduction of the doctrine of socialist realism into Polish architecture (which, for example, had been introduced into the visual arts a few ...

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 ...