Socialist
Realism
Artistic
doctrine established by the USSR during the 1930s
setting out the optimistic, socialist terms in which
society should be portrayed in works of art. It
applied to music and the visual arts as well as
writing. The policy was used as a means of censoring
artists whose work, it was felt, did not follow the
approved Stalinist party line, or was too 'Modern'.
The policy was relaxed after Stalin's death but
remained somewhat in force until the dissolution of
the USSR 1991.
Representative
painters:
Komar and Melamid, Mukhina