A 15-person panel of art experts selected the winning entries on the basis of artistic merit. The paintings are predominantly in a conservative and didactic style that bears strong resemblances to the ...

“Art is always political,” he shrugged. Shahmardan Comes Out of the Well airs topics that Kazakhstan needs to debate, like the famine and the colonial past, said the playwright. “It’s better to talk ...

The new venue launch coincides with the opening of another institution, the Almaty Museum of Arts, which will house more than 700 artworks by Kazakh and Central Asian artists and opens this summer.

The year 2014 could be considered the year of socialist realism. Early in the year, Sotheby's auction house held a non-commercial exhibition in London called Soviet Art.Soviet Sport.

During the late 1930s the party went through a fraught period of self-purification and supported and encouraged optimistic socialist realism as the singular form of art in the Soviet Union, violently ...

Under the doctrinaire rules of Soviet social realism, a painter with a hankering for nudes had to hie himself to the nearest gym, coyly disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture ...

Probably the most famous painting by Yuri Pimenov is his “New Moscow,”' an example of quintessential socialist realism. In the 1930s Pimenov painted many beautiful views of Moscow, which was ...

More of the big lie that “socialist realism” emerged from Soviet revolutionary art Dream factory communism: the visual culture of the Stalin era—an exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt ...

Socialist Realism, the officially enforced style of art under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, is undergoing a revival in Russia — and the Russian Orthodox Church is playing a key supporting role.