Socialist realism

Soviet style of realistic art depicting communist values

Socialist realism, also known as socrealism (from Russian соцреализм, sotsrealizm), is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was the official cultural doctrine, as well as in other socialist countries in the aftermath of World War II. The movement, in contrast to forms of avant-garde non-representational, stylized, or symbolic art, was based around a idealized photorealistic recreation of historic events, with a goal of advancing the socialist mission through inspirational imagery. The formal objective of socialist realism was "to depict reality in its revolutionary development" although no definitive guidelines concerning style or subject matter were provided. Works of socialist realism were usually characterized by unambiguous narratives or iconography relating to the Marxist–Leninist ideology, such as the emancipation of the proletariat.

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