The first occurred around 1948, when the young, freshly graduated artist attempted to reimagine realism to be relevant after the catastrophic war. The second came in about 1956, when he tried to do ...
In November 1949, during the Zjazd w Wiśle art symposium, new rules for socialist realism were announced – in which ‘truth and historical accuracy must artistically uncover and link with the larger ...
Socialist Realism: art socialist in content and realist in style. One of the burdens this new style had to bear in the capitalist West in later years was that it was labelled as formulaic ...