Trained in socialist realism before her flight to the U.S., Hung Liu made paintings that interrogate the myths of immigration and Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

Bare-chested and smothered in dirt and blood, the three morph into a socialist realist statue that resembles Almaty’s hulking Soviet-era war memorial. “The final statue scene to me is a foreshadowing ...

Socialist Realism isn’t just pictures of happy workers and brave soldiers. 1 of 9. Sea Rescue in the Dark This 1997 painting has been compared to "The Raft of the Medusa," a French painting from ...

70 years have passed since the ideology of socialist realism was introduced into Polish architecture. Despite the passage of time, there are still many prejudices and stereotypes associated with this ...

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 ...

Raul Ruiz’s docu-fiction hybrid, “Socialist Realism,” world premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Sept 23.

How an East German Novelist Electrified Socialist Realism. Seizing upon the margin of artistic freedom she was allowed, Brigitte Reimann captured life in the G.D.R.—and her own fissured commitments.