Soviet art is the visual art style produced after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and during the existence of the Soviet Union, until its collapse in 1991. The Russian Revolution led to an artistic and cultural shift within Russia and the Soviet Union as a whole, including a new focus on socialist realism in officially approved art.

Soviet art was intended to serve the ideological ideals of communism, and many artists obliged. We selected 10 works that were used to instruct people in how to live properly and love the...

2019年5月21日 · Art in the Soviet Union underwent a number of phases – from great restriction in Stalin’s time to some more open, less restricted periods in the decades after. Here, Alyse D. Beale provides an overview of the history of art in the USSR, with a focus on Socialist Realism art.

2021年9月12日 · The officially sanctioned style, Socialist Realism, extolled the virtues of communism and of the Communist Party. Soviet art also played a major role in the creation of Joseph Stalin’s cult of personality as he cemented his position as the leader of the Soviet Union.

Soviet Art of 1927-1987", has chosen 10 Soviet artists who thrived in the mid-20th century. She is convinced that the majority left a legacy that goes far beyond mere propaganda art. 1....

2022年11月27日 · Spanning over 80 years (1932-88), socialist realism was an official art form with an unwavering idealization of life under Soviet rule after World War II. Socialist realism took many forms: music, literature, sculptures, and film. Here we will analyze the paintings of this era and their unique visual forms.

Since the collapse of the USSR almost 30 years ago, attitudes toward Socialist Realism - the predominant artistic style of the Soviet period - has kept changing among art historians. But for...

The Zimmerli holds the largest collection in the world of Soviet nonconformist art, thanks to a remarkable 1991 donation from Norton and Nancy Dodge. Over 20,000 works by more than 1,000 artists reveal a culture that defied the strict, state-imposed conventions of Socialist Realism.

Setting out to explore Soviet design in the fields of architecture, industrial design, theatre and typography, the exhibition featured artists including El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko,...

The Soviet impressionism period lasted from approximately 1930 to 1980. Instead of incorporating the twentieth-century Western artistic sensibilities, impressionists in Russia celebrated the common people, intimately depicting their lives, hopes, dreams and emotions.