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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...