Sentences with phrase «against socialist realism»

After the western art capitol moved from Paris to New York because of the wars, critics like Greenberg posed American abstraction against Socialist Realism, and the standpoint of Social Realism became confused.

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Like many artists of that time, Ding's earliest venture into abstraction was a personal act of rebellion against the earthy tones and glib smoothness of Russian socialist realism, a figurative style that had heavily influenced the propagandistic art of the revolution.

However, even with all this attention, few exhibitions have asked the question of how, against the background of thirty - five years of Socialist Realism, this internationally - oriented artwork suddenly appeared and why it captured the attention of the international art market.

Sigmar Polke was one of the founders of «Capitalist Realism» in Germany during the 60's, mockingly counterpoised against the ideals of the dominant art - movement, «Socialist Realism.»